Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:22:17PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > 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. > > You mean a single page in every processes address space or some > /proc/sys/kernel/libatomic.so which would be a really cool hack? We probably want to call it librandom-stuff.so. :-) Thiemo
