On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Michael Cree wrote: > > It would be nice to have the missing syscalls on Alpha wired up to bring it > up to date with the other architectures. It was unfortunate that the patch > sent upstream to achieve this was missed during the 2.6.32 development > window and didn't get merged by Linus unto 2.6.33.
I am happy to add those, they are on my todo list, thanks for reporting. > I attach the patch patch-alpha-wire-up-syscalls.txt that wires up the > missing syscalls on the Alpha architecture and brings it up to date with the > other architectures. This patch is a modification of the upstream commits > 6e17e8b9fb74b9fb9f6ea331f7f4a049c5b4c4b8 and > 21797c599c710d3851d241c4b50690f2482bf618 in that it replaces the recvmmsg > syscall with a placeholder as it is not available in 2.6.32. > > As mentioned in bug report #588409 (which is now closed) support for > performance events on Alpha was merged upstream for 2.6.33. I include here > the patch patch-alpha-implement-sw-perf-events.txt which is a combination of > the upstream commits a582e6f01b90211933e70edcec9bc0bbb1157402 and > fcd14b3203b538dca04a2b065c774c0b57863eec and wires up the performance events > syscall and provides the Alpha specific code to the perf tools. > > I have tested both these patches applied to the Debian 2.6.32-17 kernel > source (though I did have to disable the buildcheck.py script as the ABI > didn't match) and it is running successfully on an Alpha PWS600au. please send in the log of the broken ABI so that it can be ignored on purpose. still need to have a look at it. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100721191426.gf11...@stro.at
