On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > I see your point, and I understand that HP-UX support has helped the > Linux support. Definitely. The change will make it more difficult for open source developers to support HP-UX. That's my underlying reason for the post. Within the GCC community, HP-UX support is viewed as more important than Linux. Adacore supports a few mission critical applications on HP-UX (ATC, I believe). Recently, patch levels came up regarding one of my bug fixes (libc changes). > If all you need is an FTP server, can't you talk to your HP contacts > and set something up to start holding patches? I believe that there are copyright issues. Sadly, my contacts at HP are now reduced to one. So, I'm not very hopeful. At some point, it won't be worthwhile continuing to support parisc and ia64 within GCC and binutils. I would judge it takes 500 to a 1000 hours a year to support GCC. Recently, two GCC bugs appeared which involved mis-compilation of the compiler. These are very hard to track down. One is still not fixed although the cause of the bug is known (fwprop). It breaks hppa64 builds. I think it could affect 32-bit as well, and it is likely present in older versions. Regarding rp3440 firmware, I noticed recently that the pdc firmware wasn't testing memory correctly and it was disabling DIMMs. This would cause restart failures. So, I updated the firmware to the latest version. The system seems stable again running a UP kernel. Haven't had a chance to test SMP yet. I suspect that the firmware may have been responsible for some cache corruption. On a positive front, squeeze with kde seem to be largely working on my c3750. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
