On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 3:15 PM, John David Anglin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-12-03, at 3:17 PM, Helge Deller wrote: > >> Overall I think we are in pretty good shape with the port, >> but here is a small list where work would be helpful: >> >> - gcc: Make gccgo work (still crashes) >> - kernel/gdb: For core files written by kernel, gdb is reporting: BFD: >> Warning: /tmp/core.http.1655.ls3011.1465554447 is truncated: expected core >> file size >= 2187264, found: 2121728. >> - kernel/glibc: Maybe implement real kernel VDSO support ? >> - gcc: _mcount can be optimized (smaller) by not subtracting offset >> - gcc: put PLABELS into read-only section (gcc function pa_reloc_rw_mask() >> needs modification, see "section mismatches" mails) > > Regarding the PLABELS, I believe the dynamic linker would have to be changed > to support putting them > into a read-only section. > > We have been slowly loosing packages due to a lack of porting effort. > > - Porting openjdk would be a huge help to package count - isn't there a > generic implementation
I can start in on that, and I have access to resources within Red Hat for OpenJDK. Would this be the biggest win? > There's probably more but I agree things are much better than before. I agree that keeping things building is a huge win, so I'll see about OpenJDK. Cheers, Carlos.
