On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:56:30PM -0400, Jason McMullan wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 07:17 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > That was a quick response - thanks. > > > > Two questions: > > > > - Do you happen to know about details of dcbz's (mis)behaviour on 8xx? > > > > I ask that mainly because I worry about in-kernel dcbz users. > > IIRC, it isn't used in any 8xx code paths.
OK! > > - Shouldnt upstream glibc have that fixed for 8xx by now? > > Ha. Funny. The glibc powerpc maintainer doesn't want any embedded > fixes in the mainline. Who is that? > Last I checked, that was for 'the tools vendors' to fix. Silly - so embedded developers are supposed rely on "embedded vendors" and not on the mainstream software distributions? > "We won't work around processor bugs" is their philosophy. > > I went through a similar (unsuccessful) battle with the > amcc 440ep's "blrl" errata and gcc/glibc. > > It would be nice if the politics there have changed > (maybe they just didn't like me personally), but I don't have > much hope. If enough people complain they will, hopefully, listen.
