Subject: Re: 1.6 woes
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/28/2002 15:55:01
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 03:37:08PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:11:58PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 11:08:32PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > I really hope this gets fixed before 1.6 is released.  Alternatively,
> > > some kind soul could send me a fre SS20's or some such to run NetBSD on ;)
> > 
> > I don't think it will. This problem has been there for a long time,
> > and we're still not sure about what's going on.
> 
> Hmm.  But your patch seems to fix the problem - why not use it in 1.6?
> Without the patch, NetBSD/Sparc will be unusable on SS1, at least.

Well, I think it's up to the sparc portmaster do decide this. There are
still open questions.
And it can't be used as is, this workaround should be used only for the
sun4c which have this problem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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