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. Ralf