[parisc-linux] new gcc-default for hppa

Randolph Chung Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:34:52 -0800


> Since you seem to have found the problem, this is probably not relevant,
> but I found this on Kernel Traffic:
> 
> 	Alan remarked, "2.5.x crashes erratically and randomly under
> 	high tty/pty load.  At the moment I'm assuming this is the tty
> 	code. That means we can't decide not to fix it since its already
> 	fatally broken." Close by, Linus Torvalds said he didn't think
> 	the TTY code was in such bad shape. He guessed there were just a
> 	few locking problems that had crept in, coupled with the
> 	preemption patches' tendency to expose existing locking bugs.
> 
> It sounds vaguely related, except maybe for the "high load" bit.

i think this is a completely different problem. the one Grant and I
found is very parisc and compiler specific.

randolph