Re: Need an account on a Linux/Mips box

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:37:23PM +0200, Raoul Borenius wrote:
> Does it run without any problems? What kernel (with what patches?) are you
> running. I'm having troubles running our R4600-Indy:
> 
> - Perl is seg-faulting (especially when a perl-script is calling another)
I'm seeing the same here. The gdb output of these segfaults is rather
weird too(gotta look that one up though). Never found time to look
deeper into this.
> 
> I'm using kernel-image-2.4.5 from debian but we've had these problems
> all through 2.4.x.
Hmm...I'm sure that very early 2.4.x kernels worked quiet well on R4600.
One way to hunt the problem down, would be to roll back to 2.4.0 and
spot the point in cvs where things break.
Could it be possible that things fail since glibc uses sysmips?
 -- Guido

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