libc in Power3 [Was: Re: reiserfs empirical ...]
- To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: libc in Power3 [Was: Re: reiserfs empirical ...]
- From: German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo@ubiobio.cl>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:43:14 -0400
- Message-id: <3B17D432.9A2B561@ubiobio.cl>
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Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > even a small start would be helping me get better RS/6000 support in
> > ybin, since the boot-floppies completely rely on ybin to make
> > yaboot systems bootable.
>
> I have debian running on a number of RS6000s. Ignoring the install,
> all that is required (on POWER3 machines) is to fix libc to understand
> the large cacheline size. At the moment I am unpacking the deb, binary
> editing it and repacking it (a trick paulus showed me). Longer term
> Benh has patches to export the cacheline size from the kernel to libc
> which will fix the problem.
Where can I get some information about to fix libc for Power3
processor. I'd like my RS/6000 machine (Power3) runs Debian
instead SuSE, but it's a broken libc.
Thanks in advance,
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German Poo Caaman~o
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