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From: "Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>
To: "Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>, deller@gmx.de, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, dave.anglin@bell.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:37:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130204163743.248510@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130204152456.294020@gmx.net>

> > Von: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
> > Helge Deller wrote:
> > > This is the first patch in a series of 4, with which the page cache 
> > > flushing of
> > > parisc will gets fixed and enhanced. This even fixes the nasty 
> > > "minifail" bug
> > > (http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases?highlight=%28minifail%29) 
> > > which
> > > prevented parisc to stay an official debian port.  Basically the 
> > > flush in
> > > copy_user_page together with the TLB patch from commit
> > > 7139bc1579901b53db7e898789e916ee2fb52d78 is what fixes the minifail 
> > > bug.
> > 
> > Is this series expected to fix the thread related problems I see in the 
> > git testsuite?
> 
> I expect so, if not, please let us know!

Ahem... actually:
MAYBE!!!

The problem is, that you probably will need an updated glibc (and maybe compiler) as well. Dave has done a lot of work to fix stuff. We have copied the most important update-packages to ftp.parisc-linux.org. To update, just make sure the following lines are in your /etc/apt/source.list file:
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable unstable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main

Do *not* just update to the packages of debian-ports.org. If you do that it will render your system unbootable, since the udev-package is broken and it will not find your discs at startup.

It's on my todo-list to upload further packages, update the website on how to update your system, and of course to get a buildd working...

Helge

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-03 22:59 [PATCH] parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4) Helge Deller
2013-02-03 23:04 ` Helge Deller
2013-02-04  6:42   ` Matt Turner
2013-02-04  8:35 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2013-02-04 15:24   ` Helge Deller
2013-02-04 16:37     ` Helge Deller [this message]
2013-02-04 17:11       ` John David Anglin
2013-02-04 17:57         ` Rolf Eike Beer
2013-02-04 18:36           ` John David Anglin
2013-03-03 11:38         ` Mike Frysinger

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