Matt Taggart wrote: > The real problem is that no one is fixing hppa kernel problems. I don't see > much point in keeping the archive up to date if nobody is working on fixing > the kernel (not currently and I suspect not in the future either). This has > been stated on the debian-hppa list several times over a long period and in > that time no one (AFAIK) has stepped up to work on it.
Matt, We have done quite some bugfixing in the last weeks and upstream 2.6.28-rcX works pretty well now. The only problem I'm facing personally right now, is that the kernel might hang on a spinlock (network/cache-flushing) when I compile a special (commercial) application on hppa. I assume this is the same bug which happens with the compilation of ruby. I'll test tonight and I've already some ideas on how to track this bug. That said, I agree that things are not 100% perfect, but it isn't as bad either... Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
