On 2/4/2013 11:37 AM, Helge Deller wrote:
Von: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
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...
Just a note, these packages are for debian systems. I believe that Eike is
running gentoo. With respect to glibc, Carlos had a set of changes which I
submitted to Debian. The full set was accepted around the -30 unstable
release.
I think most of these are in gentoo but the matter needs review.
Dave
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