Re: sparc packages?

[Chase Rayfield <cusbrar2%yahoo.com@localhost>]

I chroot compiled a gentoo base system in 2014, and ran into issues doing that, I could run whatever I wanted in the chroot on a T2000 but when I moved it to a real sparc v8 machine, I would get timeouts in threaded python code (portage) and that was on SM81s which should have been fast enough to actually do a little bit natively.

Of course that is Linux and this is Netbsd but I suspect there are issues across both in the userland. Also would not be the least bit surprised if it was related to ulong cas in the libc... since sparc doesn't support CAS instruction, and last time I checked most implementations of that just failed instead of making the code work correctly (even if slow without a dedicated CAS instruction, LEON sparc added it in actually to work around this).

Chase