On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:48:16AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Friday 17 June 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > On Friday 17 June 2011 14:10:11 Dave Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > > As part of the general effort to make open source on ARM better, I > > > > > think > > > > > it would be great if we can disable the alignment fixups (or at least > > > > > enable logging) and work with upstreams to get the affected packages > > > > > fixed. > > > > > The only effective rate limiting configuration I would recommend is to > > > SIGBUS misaligned accesses by default. And that's also supported > > > already with the right flag. > > > > > > > So should we change the default in the prerelease kernels to enable SIGBUS? > > The immediate result of that would be to break firefox, which would > > cause a lot of questions on the mailing list. > > Only if we really plan on fixing Firefox, and upstream is > interested in accepting the fix. Otherwise there is no point, > especially when it is possible for those actually interested in this > issue to change the misaligned access behavior at run time for > themselves.
It looks like the maemo guys beat us to this whole exercise. This bug has already been reported and fixed upstream. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634594 It looks like it's fixed in mozilla-5.0 (and Ubuntu oneiric) Cheers ---Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110620102834.gc2...@arm.com
