From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 13 20:24:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D7D16A400 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.com) Received: from pcbsd.ixsystems.com (pcbsd.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2B713C4A7 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (c-67-170-130-86.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.170.130.86]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pcbsd.ixsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9289A145F422 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4697D91F.4010101@pcbsd.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:57:19 -0700 From: Kris Moore User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <200707111442.33336.jhb@freebsd.org> <4697BFBB.1050009@vwsoft.com> <200707131447.23846.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200707131447.23846.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Call for testing: patch that helps Wine on 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:24:09 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 02:08:59 pm Volker wrote: >> On 07/11/07 20:42, John Baldwin wrote: >>> This patch attempts to remove a gross hack with a slightly less gross hack in >>> order to avoid clobbering data in signal info that Wine needs. In 7 this was >>> fixed by a major change to how the kernel manages signals internally, and >>> that change is too large to be MFC'd, hence this lighter weight patch. It >>> has already been tested by the folks working on Wine, but I would like a bit >>> more widespread testing before I commit it. Please test this patch and let >>> me know if anything breaks. Note that this patch is only for i386. >>> >>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sig_eva.patch >>> >> John, >> >> I've patched and recompiled world + kernel using your patch. I can >> confirm it does not hurt but what does it good (my wine already ran >> fine despite some DDE and performance issues)? What to look for >> especially - any specific test procedures? > > I'm not as familiar with what it fixes for wine, but it fixes one part of > the siginfo for signals to not contain garbage. > I've been testing it along with the 6-signal patch on the wiki.freebsd.org/Wine page. I think the signal patch is the more critical one, which fixes a lot of wine's past woes. Did you need people to test that one as well? -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com