Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751855AbXBAPwx (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:52:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751830AbXBAPwx (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:52:53 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:54607 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751839AbXBAPww (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:52:52 -0500 Message-ID: <45C20CC6.2070201@ru.mvista.com> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:52:38 +0300 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm References: <20061205171114.GA25926@elte.hu> <4582CAD6.9040404@ru.mvista.com> <20061215161952.GA29191@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20061215161952.GA29191@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1615 Lines: 35 Hello. Ingo Molnar wrote: >>>as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome, >> Be aware that even with the newest -rt patch, the PowerPC TOD >>vsyscalls are still broken, i.e. glibc may return imprecise/incorrect >>results for the related calls -- despite arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c >>has been at last fixed to at least compile, the PowerPC clocksource >>patch removed the important part of TOD vsyscall support, and this >>hasn't been dealt with. I've sent to Thomas Gleixner a patch removing >>the affected vsyscalls altogether for the time being in the early >>November (unfortunately, I came to know of the breakage too late, and >>hadn't time to deal with it propery due to othr woes), however, I'm >>not seeing any of my patches (I've also done PowerPC clockevents >>support) merged to -rt (or otherwise published). Most of the patches >>can be found in the linuxppc-dev list archives, for the interested... > could you resend them to me please? Seeing that GENERIC_TIME has been thrown out from the -rt patch, it makes no sense now (even if I had time -- I also decided to leave this to Thomas as the HRT maintainer). Concerning this change: tghe patch that comments out recalc_time_offset() call in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c must have be thrown out as well since it's breaking TOD vsyscall support now. > Ingo WBR, Sergei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/