From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756076AbZHYTYl (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756023AbZHYTYk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:24:40 -0400 Received: from mx1-old.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33561 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755995AbZHYTYj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:24:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Rusty Russell X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: James Bottomley , Helge Deller , "linux-parisc" , "linux-kernel" Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ? In-Reply-To: Rusty Russell's message of Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:29:32 +0930 <200908251729.32855.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <4A89CC4D.5040801@gmx.de> <20090819013124.7539E4730F@magilla.sf.frob.com> <1250645916.18426.12.camel@mulgrave.site> <200908251729.32855.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> X-Shopping-List: (1) Psychic inflammations (2) Fermented wine (3) Indulgent frivolity cows Message-Id: <20090825192432.4D9CC411E3@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Actually, x86 was one of the archs which fucked us. Richard Henderson and > I *had* this, but ld -shared without -fPIC helpfully tells you "you're doing > it wrong" on x86-64. This complaint could easily be (have been) made optional. > There were other issues, ISTR MIPS was a showstopper. Richard told me it's all MIPS' fault, but I was being discreet. Thanks, Roland