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Re: kaffe in sarge



The new package has been uploaded with brand new code from cvs head from
half an our ago!

Let's wait for the buildd's...

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:28:01 +0100, 
Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> wrote: 

> Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2005, 22:15 +0100 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:
>> Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2005, 13:46 +0100 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck:
>> > > FYI.
>> > > 
>> > > A new kaffe upstream snapshot with debian support for mips and
>> > > mipsel has been uploaded. It seems it couldn't be built on mipsel :'(
>> > > 
>> > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=kaffe&ver=2%3A1.1.4.PRECVS9-1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1111460324&file=log&as=raw
>> > > 
>> > > I contact upstream.
>> > 
>> > Thanks for the quick notice. I'm cross-ing to all debian arches atm to
>> > fix build problems I failed to notice ;( Fixes for ia64 and mipsel are
>> > in CVs already, a fix for arm is in the works.
>> 
>> I heard the mips/mipsel fix means to switch to a slow generic cmpxchg,
>> have I understood this correctly?
>
> Yes. We'd need someone to look over the mips(el) cmpxchg to make an
> adaptation for the new glibc-based locking primitivs. I've CC:ed
> Guilhem, who can supply the details. I think he needs a specific variant
> of cmpxchg which returns the old value.
>
> I'm looking forward to patches, in particular to get the jit flying
> again on mips ;(
>
> The new package should be uploaded today, thanks to Arnaud.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
>

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