[arch-dev-public] [signoff] binutils-2.21-4 and glibc-2.13-3

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Freitag 11 Februar 2011 schrieb Allan McRae:
> On 09/02/11 19:15, Allan McRae wrote:
> > This is a rebuild to remove nopl instructions on i686 so those "i686"
> > processors (e.g. Via C3 Nehemiah) that do not support it do not crash a
> > lot. This issue was supposed to be fixed upstream in binutils-2.21 so
> > the old work around for this was removed from our glibc package. Turns
> > out, the binutils fix was not as much of a fix as was previously
> > thought...
> > 
> > binutils-2.21-4:
> > - new snapshot from 2.21 branch
> > - add upstream patch to stop nopl usage on i686
> > 
> > glibc-2.13-3:
> > - rebuild to remove nopl instructions
> > 
> > Before:
> >  > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l
> > 
> > 264
> > 
> > After
> > 
> >  > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l
> > 
> > 0
> > 
> > 
> > glibc is probably the only package that needed rebuilt to remove those
> > instructions as its build forces --mtune=i686 when --march=i686 is used.
> > Those package that listen to --mtune=generic are fine.
> 
> As an FYI for people who were affected by this.  I have had reports that
> a Via C3 Nehemiah now works and that an AMD Geode required a kernel
> rebuild with these to no have a kernel panic on boot but then seemed fine.
> 
> Allan
Hi i rebuilt the kernel-26 and kernel26-lts packages with latest gcc and 
binutils, shall i push them to testing?

thanks
greetings
tpowa

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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