From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 18:43:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86255106564A for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A7A8FC12 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.35]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hUvU1j0040lTkoCAAWhuol; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:41:54 +0000 Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org ([24.8.232.202]) by omta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hWht1j00U4NgCEG8QWhu8M; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:41:54 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q71Ifpr4001940; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:41:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) From: Ian Lepore To: Dave Hayes In-Reply-To: <5008728C.5040100@jetcafe.org> References: <5008728C.5040100@jetcafe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:41:51 -0600 Message-ID: <1343846511.1128.34.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Globalscale Dreamplug and 8.3 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:43:00 -0000 On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:48 -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > As a related question, I'm noting some conversation by various > developers about issues with arm...if there are any patches that > experienced people could point me to that might get arm to work better > for FreeBSD 8.3 that would be great. > > Thanks in advance! As to this other part of your message that I didn't answer with my last reply... I think the most important fix you need that isn't already in 8.3 is the change to avoid leaving the i-cache bit disabled on executable pages after loading a program or shared lib. I had posted a workaround patch for that on this list a few months ago, which was oriented towards being as small a change as possible to implement the workaround. Since then, my patch was reworked by kib@ into a much more complete and robust change, but that change hasn't found its way back to freebsd 8.x yet. The change that got committed to 9 and 10 doesn't apply cleanly to 8, but this is something we need at work, so I'll get it back-ported to 8 and post the patch Sometime Soon(tm). -- Ian