Am Freitag 11 Februar 2011 schrieb Allan McRae: > On 09/02/11 19:15, Allan McRae wrote: > > 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. > > As an FYI for people who were affected by this. I have had reports that > a Via C3 Nehemiah now works and that an AMD Geode required a kernel > rebuild with these to no have a kernel panic on boot but then seemed fine. > > Allan Hi i rebuilt the kernel-26 and kernel26-lts packages with latest gcc and binutils, shall i push them to testing?
thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [email protected]
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