Subject: Re: 1.6.1 lack of stability on cats
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 02/03/2003 13:09:44
Richard Earnshaw said:
> bjh21 said:
>> My immediate thought (and something that's been sitting at the back of
>> my mind and completely failing to get any useful attention for months)
>> is that we might have some but not all of the copyin/out updates in
>> the 1.6 branch, and might hence have a copyin/out that handles
>> misaligned buffers wrongly.
>>
> Sounds very likely,  bcopyinout.S on the branch is effectively 1.1 from
> the trunk (though CVS thinks it's parented off 1.9 for some strange
> reason).

hmm, possibly, I'll see when I get home if the xsrc build has got any
further with a non arch/tune kernel.  Certainly looking at the diffs it's
rather worrying.

How standalone is bcopyinout.S?  IE could it be updated on it's own
(noting that it's now full of mulitprocessor stuff.

Chris