Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] nptl: Implement POSIX-proposed _clock variants of existing _timed functions

[Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe dot com>]

On Wednesday 19 June 2019 at 16:33:22 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 18/06/2019 13:33, Mike Crowe wrote:
> > The changes have been tested with "make check" and "make check-abi" on
> > x86, x86_64, arm and arm64. I've attempted to update the abilists for
> > all architectures, but cannot test all of them.
> 
> You can build compiler and glibcs using build-many-glibcs.py for all current
> supported targets and update automatically using the update-abi make rule
> inside the build directory. This can be run in cross-compile build.

Thanks. I'll try that.

> > I've compile-tested the powerpc and s390-specific implementations of
> > lll_clockwait. Although I've updated the sparc32-specific
> > implementation, I have been unable to test it since it appears that
> > even Debian hasn't supported sparc32 for nearly twenty years! I was
> > able to compile-test sparc64 though.

(It turns out that I misread the Debian Wiki page. It's only about ten
years. :-)

> 
> The gcc farm provides sparc64 machines with Debian 10 installed where
> you can test 32-bit build against it. The kernel will run in compat
> mode, similar to what i686 run in a x86_64 kernel. 

I was unaware of that. I've requested an account.

However, that made me realise that I could just use the Debian sparc64
cross compiler with -m32 (and apparently -mcpu=v9.) The build was
successful.

Thanks.

Mike.