Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > finally I caught up with normal life again; maybe slightly more noisy > than before ;-) > > Ben is putting a lot of work in the glibc update and I'm glad that he > took over the package compilation. Thanks. > I read the glibc thread with interest and I've got just some random > remarks: > It's ok that the old sparc patches were dropped because they were > just compatibility hacks for the 2.0.x kernels. Potato will be pure > 2.2.x on Sparc. But I'm slightly worried about the upgrade path. If we > really depend on a kernel > 2.2.7 we'll need a glibc preinst script on > Sparc which bails out on older kernels (uname). Ben, do you know > what's the init problem ? Maybe we can fix it instead ?
I believe that the issue is that vfork is broken on some sparc32 machines (at the very least sun4m) in the earlier 2.2.x kernels. I suspect that a possible workaround would be to point vfork() at the fork system call, _and_ tweak any other functions that use NR_vfork internally (I think pipe() does). > Steve is integrating the Creator patches in our new XFree source > package which is great. The co-sysadmin at my university department > here in Stuttgart compiled a patched Xsun24 for our own testing. It's > definitly faaaaast. In case somebody is interested in testing it on > their Ultras I put the gzipped server at > ftp://pc5.isr.uni-stuttgart.de/debian/Xsun24.gz > This is only for the impatient otherwise wait for the _true_ packages > by Steve ;-) I've already got real packages that need testing at: deb http://www.cse.msu.edu/debian slink x3331 They add LEO and accelerated creator support. And I've included Debian versions of the splashscreen images. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
