Re: mpc8xx and ld.so problem

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:56:30PM -0400, Jason McMullan wrote:

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 07:17 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

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That was a quick response - thanks.

Two questions:

- Do you happen to know about details of dcbz's (mis)behaviour on 8xx? 

I ask that mainly because I worry about in-kernel dcbz users.

    IIRC, it isn't used in any 8xx code paths.

OK!

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- Shouldnt upstream glibc have that fixed for 8xx by now?

    Ha. Funny. The glibc powerpc maintainer doesn't want any embedded
fixes in the mainline. 

Who is that?

Last I checked, that was for 'the tools vendors' to fix.

Silly - so embedded developers are supposed rely on "embedded vendors"
and not on the mainstream software distributions? 

    "We won't work around processor bugs" is their philosophy.

    I went through a similar (unsuccessful) battle with the
amcc 440ep's "blrl" errata and gcc/glibc.

    It would be nice if the politics there have changed
(maybe they just didn't like me personally), but I don't have
much hope.

If enough people complain they will, hopefully, listen.