[2011-02-09 19:15:58 +1000] Allan McRae: > This is a rebuild to remove nopl instructions on i686 so those > "i686" processors (e.g. Via C3 Nehemiah) that do not support it do > not crash a lot. This issue was supposed to be fixed upstream in > binutils-2.21 so the old work around for this was removed from our > glibc package. Turns out, the binutils fix was not as much of a > fix as was previously thought... > > binutils-2.21-4: > - new snapshot from 2.21 branch > - add upstream patch to stop nopl usage on i686 > > glibc-2.13-3: > - rebuild to remove nopl instructions > > > Before: > > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l > 264 > > After > > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l > 0 > > > glibc is probably the only package that needed rebuilt to remove > those instructions as its build forces --mtune=i686 when > --march=i686 is used. Those package that listen to --mtune=generic > are fine.
Signoff x86_64. -- Gaetan
