Re: Tester with IP27/IP30 needed

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

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