On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:42:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: >> At the time Alpha was removed from the testing distribution it did >> have serious issues and was criticised for a lack of upstream >> support. The upstream support has now largely been addressed. The >> kernel is now up to date with other architectures and is being >> supported. X windows is now working on the more modern Alphas (i.e. >> those with the BWX CPU extension), and the fixes to get KMS working >> on Alpha will soon make their way into the kernel. There is now >> upstream support addressing issues in the compiler toolchain and >> glibc. >> > > I would not say the same about glibc upstream support. When glibc 2.13 > has been released, it was not even compiling on alpha. After fixing the > build part, the testsuite results were very bad. You need a bunch of > patches to get it in a correct state, and I am the one who spent time > to write most of them.
This is partly due to the fact that I hate trying to submit things to glibc. Also that I don't have any time right now. But mostly because I hate glibc development. I pushed a lot of patches we'd been carrying in Gentoo before 2.12, but I don't have the time or willpower to even follow all the "I made this change to the MIPS headers. Alpha will want to do the same"-type changes. I really appreciate you tracking down and fixing a lot of glibc problems recently. Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
