Re: problems with mips builds on ball (potential mass give-back)

On 2012-07-14 23:56:02 (+0100), Simon McVittie wrote: > (Re-sending to a wider audience than mips@b.d.o, with more information and > a somewhat complete list of give-backs.) > > ball.debian.org seems to be rather unhappy. My recent dbus upload failed > with this in the log: > > ../../dbus/dbus-t

quik version in srage

Hi, I think it would be wise to update quik to at least 2.1-4 as 2.1-3 has a rather annoying bug (#294958). 2.1-5 has md support which might be useful for some people. 2.1-6 has compressed kernel support which will become useful when floppy support is in. Cheers, Peter (p2). signature.asc Desc

Re: bswap,xadd and cmpxchg emulation on 386

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:35:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:11:20PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205839 has the patch. Note > > that 486 stepping A processors have a wrong opcode fo

bswap,xadd and cmpxchg emulation on 386

Hi *, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205839 has the patch. Note that 486 stepping A processors have a wrong opcode for cmpxchg. This means emulation of cmpxchg is necessary for 486 stepping A as well. As to the security hole, either the patch needs some fixes (ie using get_user etc.) o