On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:13:21AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:53 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway
wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:50 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > > A question; Before I open BZ... Is the kernel team (I see Dave Jones is
> > > doin' much; that's why CC:) willing to help AlphaCore and add
patches to
> > > kernel spec?
> > >
> > > No, it's nothing for upstream. Just fixes for the spec. Some
> > > if(n)arch's, sections for alpha, a config, ... Nothing that should
break
> > > primary archs...
> >
> > We don't like ifarches. Why?
>
> The utrace patch is the biggest concern here, really. Not that it's bad
> code, but its a significant divergence from upstream, and it doesn't
> work on sparc32 (and presumably, alpha). Aurora is %ifarch
> conditionalizing that patch (and one later patch that has to be modified
> slightly for the old ptrace behavior) in our kernels as well.
Does it apply? Seems there's a config option for it... you could just
leave that disabled in your .configs.
Problem is (AIUI) that doing that would remove ptrace functionality completely.
With the patch applied, ptrace is implemented as a 'personality' of utrace.
Dave
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