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

[Caolan McNamara]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:01 +0200, Rabeeh Khoury wrote:
> [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?

I'm sure its fixable and probably fairly simple, its just unfortunate
that qemu doesn't emulate that part of things so I can't see them
myself.

C.