Future branch status

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 08:37:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:42:48PM +0200, Peter Mazinger wrote:
>Hello Khem,
>
>these patches are really critical. I consider the changes to the locking scheme a bug since subversion 28.2, how these should be fixed, should be rather a discussion on the mailing list. The only real solution would be to generalise the locking in libc, that works independently of NPTL/linuxthreads...

Let's leave this out for the merge and look at it after the merge
(unless you can fix it for the failing arches), ok?

I'm going through the other commits during the weekend (I have a few
remarks).

thanks,
>
>Peter
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Peter Mazinger <ps.m at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > which 3 patches produce the regressions?
>> 
>> The real problem is in first one other two are just dependent on it.
>> so they are removed but first one shows up the real problem.
>> 
>> http://uclibc.org/~kraj/future-rebase/0368-hide-locking-related-pthread-functions-in-libc.so.patch
>> 
>> http://uclibc.org/~kraj/future-rebase/0387-linuxthreads.old-hide-a-bunch-of-functions.patch
>> 
>> http://uclibc.org/~kraj/future-rebase/0393-fix-the-different-views-of-the-cleanup-functions.patch
>
>the last 2 patches
>> 
>> 
>> > Is the arm/mips/ppc problem an endianness only problem (does it work on
>> LE but not on BE)?
>> 
>> arm is LE other two are BE
>> 
>> >
>> > Thanks, Peter
>> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> >> Datum: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:45:22 -0700
>> >> Von: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> >> An: uClibc list <uclibc at uclibc.org>
>> >> CC: Peter Mazinger <ps.m at gmx.net>
>> >> Betreff: Future branch status
>> >
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I have been trying to sanitize future branch and keep it rebased on
>> >> top of master
>> >> however the branch does introduce regressions. I have identified 3
>> patches
>> >> which
>> >> lets me boot x11 image on x86 and x86_64 but arm, mips and ppc are
>> still a
>> >> no go
>> >> it boots into console fine but not the x11 image which otherwise boots
>> >> fine on top
>> >> of current master so I consider this as a regression.
>> >>
>> >> The branch however does have some interesting fixes. So I am going to
>> >> merge the
>> >> bug fixes and trivial fixes first and primarily which dont regress.
>> >>
>> >> My tree is here
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/kraj/uClibc
>> >>
>> >> which is future branch rebased on top of master.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> -Khem
>> >
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