OLS PARISC BOF 2006

OLS PARISC BOF 2006

BOF Topics

1. PA8800

2. NPTL Debugging

3. State of the kernel

4. tmpalias flushing

5. Git

6. H/W Support

7. 64-bit Userspace

8. Debian Etch

1. PA8800

• Random insn run.

• 2 sockets HPMC (L2 Error?)

• Logging TLB inserts?

• sshd and telnetd are repeatable triggers

• Make and Bash will sometimes segfault

• Force prefetches?

• Disable L2 (Grant)

2. NPTL Debugging

• More debugging required

• Mutex, lowlevellock, and futex should be reviewed

3. State of the Kernel

• Good!

• Tulip?

• USB?

• Missing futex routines?

• pselect / ppoll!

• gen irq!!

• Kernel headers

• Header installs

• Soft lockups gcc 3.4 vs gcc?

• RW locks broken? RW lock testsuite?

• Signals bug?

• process stuck in read()?

• mremap fails?

4. tmplalias flushing

No comments.

5. GIT

• Shutdown CVS

• Migrate to?

• Where do we put userspace/ web/ linux-2.6/ build-tools/?

6. H/W Support

Some people poke fun at other people with really old hardware.

7. 64-bit Userspace

Some people poke fun at Carlos.

8. Debian Etch

Raise the SEP field!