Re: Booting Debian in qemu-system-alpha

2020-01-24 Thread Richard Henderson
On 1/24/20 6:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone had any success recently booting Debian on qemu-system-alpha? > > I just built qemu-system using the alpha-softmmu target from git and tried > to run Debian's Alpha port but the output hangs very early: > >

Re: clear_cache on Alpha architecture not implemented?

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Henderson
On 05/04/12 07:07, Camm Maguire wrote: Nothing here should affect any kfreebsd_amd64 machine, right? Correct. r~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: clear_cache on Alpha architecture not implemented?

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Henderson
On 05/04/12 06:39, Camm Maguire wrote: I'm wondering if there is a simple configure time test to detect when this has been fixed. If I just aborted using __builtin___clear_cache if it is in fact a noop on alpha, ppc, ppc64, and ia64, would this suffice? I can't think of any simple, portable

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-30 Thread Richard Henderson
On 05/29/2011 05:39 PM, Alan Modra wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 03:36:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: The regular expression in testsuite/ld-plugin/plugin-6.d only expects one line with the undefined reference to `func' but on Alpha two such (identical) lines are generated. Should two such

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Henderson
On 05/06/2011 03:25 AM, Michael Cree wrote: So my question is, what is this [other: 80]? Does it matter? Is this failure a false report? It's these: /* Legal values for st_other field of Elf64_Sym. */ #define STO_ALPHA_NOPV 0x80/* No PV required. */ #define

Re: QEMU Alpha system status

2011-05-05 Thread Richard Henderson
On 05/05/2011 01:16 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: As of QEMU i must say Cool!. I was going to work on qemu-alpha after fixing linker and compiler issue in current versions. Is there any repository for you work? See git://repo.or.cz/qemu/rth.git axp-iommu-1 git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/rth.git

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Henderson
On 04/30/2011 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote: First off is bug 12608 [1] which I believe I have identified the problem and have posted a patch to the bug tracker. I am hoping that if it is acceptable that you can commit it. I'll have a look. Secondly, I noted a number of test suite failures

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/30/2009 09:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Thanks for this patch I have tried it, and it does not have the original problem I have reported. Unfortunately it does not pass the glibc testsuite. I'll try to debug the problem later (I don't own an alpha machine, and need to have internet access

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-29 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/26/2009 04:45 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Knowing that $31 could be used for prefetch, I have modified the assembly code from memchr.S to use it. It passes all the testsuite. This isn't intended to be a prefetch instruction, it's meant to be fetching the data for the next word. I.e.

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/13/2009 03:16 PM, Matt Turner forwarded: The problem is that the memchr() function on alpha uses prefetch, which can cause a page boundary to be crossed, while the standards (POSIX and C99) says it should stop when a match is found. That's not supposed to matter -- faults from prefetch

Re: problem with smp and isolcpus

2005-07-28 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:43:46AM +1000, Samad, Alex wrote: This brings me to my original question why isn't isolcpus working when I boot with isolcpus=2 I thought it isolated cpu 2 from the schedular and thus removed any chance of it running any tasks, threads etc Is this as good as