Does anyone know canonically if the system can have instability because *any* executable program is compiled without the loongson2f as/binutils fixes?
The site http://dev.lemote.com/code/firefox-3.7-loongson-jit says: "Recommend building with Lemote's tool-chain http://dev.lemote.com/files/binary/toolchain/gcc4ls2f.tar to avoid a potential bug http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html."; I was under the impression that only the kernel, linux had to be compiled with the loongson2f as/binutils fixes to avoid system lockups due to silicon-level loongson2f bugs. If this is wrong then I feel gNewSense (a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution) might as well spend the time to make a n32 ABI / loongson2f / loongson2f as bug fixes variant of gNewSense now, rather then waiting on the Debian work in that area [1]. Also, I have been told recently produced loongson2f chips have fixed these bugs, so not everyone may see them. Does anyone know how to tell if one has a version of the loongson2f chip with the bug that requires the binutils patches? [1] create a mips 3 port for Debian : update 20091025 http://sandyleo26.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/create-a-mips-3-port-for-debian-update-20091025/ Thanks, -- Daniel JB Clark | http://pobox.com/~dclark _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
