On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:47:25AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > dann frazier wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:08:59PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > >> dann frazier wrote: > >>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > >>>> Helge Deller schrieb am Montag, dem 15. Dezember 2008: > >>>> > >>>>> Matt Taggart wrote: > >>>>>> The real problem is that no one is fixing hppa kernel problems. I > >>>>>> don't see > >>>>>> much point in keeping the archive up to date if nobody is working on > >>>>>> fixing > >>>>>> the kernel (not currently and I suspect not in the future either). > >>>>>> This has > >>>>>> been stated on the debian-hppa list several times over a long period > >>>>>> and in > >>>>>> that time no one (AFAIK) has stepped up to work on it. > >>>>> Matt, > >>>>> > >>>>> We have done quite some bugfixing in the last weeks and upstream > >>>>> 2.6.28-rcX works pretty well now. > >>>> What does that mean for the lenny 2.6.26 kernel? > >>> Well, obviously when there's a fix upstream we will look at > >>> backporting this into 2.6.26. > >> I've just posted a short analysis of the problem and a proposed kernel > >> patch in: > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478717#118 > >> > >> It fixes the kernel crashes for me and should help to do further > >> analysis without crashing the running linux kernel. > >> > >> The patch (and the problem) needs further discussion on parisc-linux > >> kernel mailing list though... > > > > Thanks Helge! Just in case its relevant to your investigation, note > > that this is also an issue when using a pure NPTL environment. > > Just wanted to give a short update - > After quite some debugging by various parisc kernel developers, it seems > that buggy TLB flushing code was causing the ruby1.9 build failures / > kernel crashes and we developed a workaround for now: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/1028 > > Patch in parisc git tree: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=378fe7c4cc619b561409206605c723c05358edac;hp=6c4dfa8f8bcf032137aacb3640d7dd9d75b2b607 > > I assume this patch solves quite some other issues which were seen as well.
Excellent! > It would be really nice, if this (preliminary) patch could be included > in the debian parisc kernel soon... Doing a test build now... -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
