Subject: Re: mpc8xx and ld.so problem

From: Marcelo Tosatti <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 07:17:13 -0300

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:55:16AM -0400, Jason McMullan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 06:44 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Hi Anton,
> > 
> > 
> > (moving to ppc-embedded since it might be of interesting for other 
> > 8xx users)
> > 
> 
> Apply this patch to glibc, and recompile:
> 
> rm -f glibc/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/memset.S
> 
> 
> The PPC32 dbcz semantics don't seem to work properly on 8xx
> in all cases. Removing the '.S' file makes glibc fall back on
> the .c implementation. 

Hi Jason, 

That was a quick response - thanks.

Two questions:

- Do you happen to know about details of dcbz's (mis)behaviour on 8xx? 

I ask that mainly because I worry about in-kernel dcbz users.

- Shouldnt upstream glibc have that fixed for 8xx by now?