From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f5DFOIP09776 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:24:18 -0700 Received: from ocean.lucon.org (c1473286-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com [24.176.137.160]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5DFOHP09767 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:24:17 -0700 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47275125BA; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:24:17 -0700 From: "H . J . Lu" To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: A new mips toolchain is available Message-ID: <20010613082417.C9739@lucon.org> References: <20010613080829.A9739@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, H . J . Lu wrote: > > > > What's the problem with the kernel? It works fine for my R3400A > > > DECstation. Glibc is 2.2.3 as released. If there is something wrong, I > > > definitely want to know. > > > > It has something to do with the atomic emulation in kernel for mips I. > > Hmm, I thought Florian's sysmips() fixes went in. Here is a patch I use > successfully for some time. It doesn't work for small negative integers, > but glibc doesn't use them, AFAIK. > > Another possibility is to use the set of two patches for > sys__test_and_set() I've sent here recently. This would break portability > for now, though, if you wanted to distribute glibc or kernel binaries. > This is also the reason I didn't put my current patched version of glibc > on my FTP site. > > The patch is not against a current version of the kernel -- you might > need to apply it manually. > > Maciej > > -- > + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + > > patch-mips-2.4.0-test11-20001211-sysmips-0 I don't have problem with 2.4.0-test11. It is the change in 2.4.3 which breaks glibc. H.J.