From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:38036 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20035993AbYBFOXk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:23:40 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m16EMIXV007807; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:22:18 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m16EMHm4007806; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:22:17 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:22:17 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Florian Lohoff Cc: Kumba , Thiemo Seufer , Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, debian-mips@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tester with IP27/IP30 needed Message-ID: <20080206142217.GA7633@linux-mips.org> References: <20080122154958.GA29108@linux-mips.org> <479AA532.5040603@gentoo.org> <20080126143949.GA6579@alpha.franken.de> <47A4E9DF.5070603@gentoo.org> <20080203021647.GA15910@linux-mips.org> <20080203062711.GA28394@paradigm.rfc822.org> <47A80C0A.4040106@gentoo.org> <20080205122211.GA24136@networkno.de> <47A928BF.5000302@gentoo.org> <20080206085610.GA20751@paradigm.rfc822.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080206085610.GA20751@paradigm.rfc822.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 18184 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > No - the very same GLIBC does not work on mips1 machines and vice versa. > Might by okay for gentoo but debian needs a run everywhere glibc which > means some ld.so tricks like with the libc6-i686 to load a different > glibc from my understanding. There is the long standing plan to generate a shared library on on the fly during kernel initialization and move atomic operations and performance relevant functions like memcpy to it. Thiemo's latest work on tlbex.c got us a tiny step closer to that. Ralf