[fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available

[Andrew Haley]

Rabeeh Khoury wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:46 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>>     
>>> Cool!  Is there any place that documents the changes necessary for
>>> 2.3 so that we can also provide a (separate) set of 2.3 rpms for F8?
>>>       
>> Should in theory just be
>>
>> http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/patches/workspace.armoabiport01.patch
>> +
>> http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/patches/workspace.armeabi01.patch
>>
>> Though if OOo fails to register components or start up then you
>> might need to make additional changes to some makefile.mks that
>> reference "VERSIONMAP" to reuse the i386 map files for arm, all of
>> which was fixed up for 2.4. I don't remember if its strictly necessary
>> to fix that in 2.3 or not.
>>
>>     
>
> [RKh] I'v just tried installing the RPM packages; at the beginning it didn't work well until I noticed that the binaries generates lots of unaligned accesses.
> ARM kernel I'm using doesn't fix that for the user-space by default; so after 'echo 3 > /proc/cpu/alignment' and running soffice and importing a Microsoft word doc I got the following amount of exceptions -
>
> -bash-3.2# cat /proc/cpu/alignment 
> User:           125929
> System:         0
> Skipped:        0
> Half:           27982
> Word:           21780
> DWord:          74940
> Multi:          0
> User faults:    3 (fixup+warn)
>
> Any idea where those unaligned accesses are coming from? Any idea if this can be fixed too?
>   
Interesting.  I guess we'd want to fix this: unaligned access is so 
slow.  I'd break out a debugger and have a look.  Or at least I would if 
debuginfo weren't broke.  :-(

Andrew.

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