On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 01:05:55PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > 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...
Build succeeded, my test case is working reliably (building ncurses-ruby several times), and this fix has been committed. This change should appear in lenny in the next update - not sure if this will happen before 5.0r0 or the first point release yet. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
