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
>
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> 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.
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