Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 06:15:16AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 12/12/22 20:45, Michael Cree wrote: > > Either the arch baseline is raised to something that is easier to > > maintain (which, frankly, I think is essential if the Alpha port is to > > survive any longer), s

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 12/12/22 20:45, Michael Cree wrote: Either the arch baseline is raised to something that is easier to maintain (which, frankly, I think is essential if the Alpha port is to survive any longer), someone else steps up to fix the brokenness that arises from non-atomic multi-cpu-instructio

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:24:06PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:24:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> > >> > On Dec 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > >>> > >>> I a

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Dec 12, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:24:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >> On Dec 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Michael Cree wrote: >>> >>> I am not interested in supporting old Alphas without BWX anymore. >>> I am drawing the line

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:24:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > I am not interested in supporting old Alphas without BWX anymore. > > I am drawing the line. Either someone steps up to support non-BWX > > Alpha and prom

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Dec 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > I am not interested in supporting old Alphas without BWX anymore. > I am drawing the line. Either someone steps up to support non-BWX > Alpha and promptly fixes glibc or the architecture baseline is > increased to include BWX (thereby fix

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 12.12.22 09:17, Michael Cree wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:56:40AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: Dear Michael, On 12.12.22 08:27, Michael Cree wrote: With the usrmerge uploads now depending on a recent libc version Alpha is now dead in the water. Nothing can be built. Thus we have t

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:02:23AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Frank! > > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 8:57 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I fully understand the issue here: > > > > See, glibc used to work for alpha up until 2.33 as I read. Then a change > > broke it f

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:56:40AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Dear Michael, > > On 12.12.22 08:27, Michael Cree wrote: > > With the usrmerge uploads now depending on a recent libc version Alpha > > is now dead in the water. Nothing can be built. Thus we have to fix > > glibc to continue buil

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Frank! > On Dec 12, 2022, at 8:57 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > I'm not sure I fully understand the issue here: > > See, glibc used to work for alpha up until 2.33 as I read. Then a change > broke it for alpha with 2.34. Does the respective glibc maintainer for > alpha (Richard Henderson acc

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

2022-12-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Michael, On 12.12.22 08:27, Michael Cree wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 01:47:59PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 20.11.22 10:03, Michael Cree wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:45:17AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just noticed that there is a regression in glibc on alpha wi