On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, H . J . Lu wrote: > > > > What's the problem with the kernel? It works fine for my R3400A > > > DECstation. Glibc is 2.2.3 as released. If there is something wrong, I > > > definitely want to know. > > > > It has something to do with the atomic emulation in kernel for mips I. > > Hmm, I thought Florian's sysmips() fixes went in. Here is a patch I use > successfully for some time. It doesn't work for small negative integers, > but glibc doesn't use them, AFAIK. > > Another possibility is to use the set of two patches for > sys__test_and_set() I've sent here recently. This would break portability > for now, though, if you wanted to distribute glibc or kernel binaries. > This is also the reason I didn't put my current patched version of glibc > on my FTP site. > > The patch is not against a current version of the kernel -- you might > need to apply it manually. > > Maciej > > -- > + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + > > patch-mips-2.4.0-test11-20001211-sysmips-0 I don't have problem with 2.4.0-test11. It is the change in 2.4.3 which breaks glibc. H.J.
