Paul and Ralph,

for what it's worth :

a) i faced the very same issue on my (sloooow) qemu emulated ppc64 vm
b) i was able to run very basic programs when passing --mca coll ^ml to
mpirun

Cheers,

Gilles

On 2014/08/01 12:30, Ralph Castain wrote:
> Yes, I fear this will require some effort to chase all the breakage down 
> given that (to my knowledge, at least) we lack PPC machines in the devel 
> group.
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> On the path to verifying George's atomics patch, I have started just by 
>> verifying that I can still build the UNPATCHED trunk on each of the 
>> platforms I listed.
>>
>> I have tried two PPC64/Linux systems so far and am seeing the same problem 
>> on both.  Though I can pass "make check" both platforms SEGV on
>>    mpirun -mca btl sm,self -np 2 examples/ring_c
>>
>> Is this the expected state of the trunk on big-endian systems?
>> I am thinking in particular of 
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/07/15365.php in which 
>> Ralph wrote:
>>> Yeah, my fix won't work for big endian machines - this is going to be an 
>>> issue across the
>>> code base now, so we'll have to troll and fix it. I was doing the minimal 
>>> change required to
>>> fix the trunk in the meantime. 
>> If this big-endian failure is not known/expected let me know and I'll 
>> provide details.
>> Since testing George's patch only requires "make check" I can proceed with 
>> that regardless.
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:25 PM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>> Awesome, thanks Paul. When the results will be in we will fix whatever is 
>> needed for these less common architectures.
>>
>>   George.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:13 PM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>> Paul, I know you have a pretty diverse range computers. Can you try to 
>> compile and run a "make check" with the following patch?
>>
>> I will see what I can do for ARMv7, MIPS, PPC and IA64 (or whatever subset 
>> of those is still supported).
>> The ARM and MIPS system are emulators and take forever to build OMPI.
>> However, I am not even sure how soon I'll get to start this testing.
>>
>>
>> Add SPARC (v8plus and v9) to that list.
>>  
>>
>>
>> -- 
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