[systemd-devel] udev-212 and up on Sparc v8

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 23.06.14 16:11, Samuli Suominen (ssuominen at gentoo.org) wrote:

> > Thanks, but please work with the gcc developers to solve this
> > generically for all gcc users, instead of work around this limitation in
> > every individual project independently. It's certainly time much better
> > spent.
> 
> IIRC, he told me when we discussed at IRC that systemd-udevd was the
> showstopper, and rest of the 'core' system
> built fine.

Sure. Again. It's sounds like time much better spend if you solve this
atomic ops problems for all users of it (and believe me there are a
number, especially outside of the 'core' system. PulseAudio for example
being one which hwoever has ugly fallbacks to libatomic_ops, which are
much slower and uglier, and pull in a dep). 

> Mike seems to also think this should be solved in systemd,
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514016#c9
> 
> But, too bad this goes beyond my knowledge a bit :-/

Well, I am pretty sure the Gentoo SPARC people will have people who work
on the toolchain (I am mean, if they have the task of porting an OS to
an exotic/new arch, then they better have), and instead I am sure they
will acknowledge that fixing this with one gcc patch for everybody
instead of many patches for just one user would be much better and in
total less work.

Thanks,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat