Hi!
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:01:27 +0100
> From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Re: SGI IP28 support
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:38:14PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > [..]
>
> There is one thing I forgot: You need a special gcc, which will generate
> cache barriers to avoid speculative stores done by the R10k. Peter
> had some patches submitted to the gcc maintainers, which I used to
> build my own gcc 4.2.1 cross compiler. Does anybody know, if Peter's
> paches are already intergrated in newer gcc versions ?
They hardly are. At least i didn't undertake a second attempt yet. Nor
did i hear of the Gentoo-folks or someone else taking this unpleasant
job.
>
> Thomas.
>
> --
> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
> good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
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>
>
kind regards
peter
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