From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:05:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:42920 "EHLO relay01.mx.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28576310AbYBHTF0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:05:26 +0000 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay01.mx.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2AE48916; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:05:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JNYXH-0004s2-E6; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:05:19 +0000 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:05:19 +0000 From: Thiemo Seufer To: Florian Lohoff Cc: Ralf Baechle , Kumba , Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, debian-mips@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tester with IP27/IP30 needed Message-ID: <20080208190519.GA2188@networkno.de> References: <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> <20080206142217.GA7633@linux-mips.org> <20080208172316.GD25893@paradigm.rfc822.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080208172316.GD25893@paradigm.rfc822.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) 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: 18208 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: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:22:17PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > 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. > > You mean a single page in every processes address space or some > /proc/sys/kernel/libatomic.so which would be a really cool hack? We probably want to call it librandom-stuff.so. :-) Thiemo