[kaffe] StrongARM problems

[Dalibor Topic]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Guilhem Lavaux wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>> Hi Fabien,
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>>> Me too I cannot compile HEAD, I have the same errors.
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>> Dalibor was on the track for this bug but I don't know what he is 
>> doing now about it. But here is the right fix I think...
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> I think the problem comes from libc's internal structure  (k-sigcontext) 
> and the kernel includes disagreeing on the sigonctext struct's contents. 
> libc uses a union of sigcontext structs (v20, v21) to be able to extract 
> the 'right' sigcontextinfo from the kernel sigcontext. Of course, as the 
> kernel sigcontext does not really have such a union inside the struct, 
> things break when we pass sigcontext as a k_sigcontext.
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> I think the right way to fix that is to find out what sigcontext struct 
> looked like on 2.0 kernels for arm, and to check what it looks like on 
> current arm kernels, to add a configure.ac check for some struct element 
> that's only present in one of them, and to use that to fix our 
> sigcontextinfo.h to remove the v2x union ideantifiers to access the 
> right struct elements when the above mentioned struct element is present 
> or not.
> 
> I have to start downloading some kernels, I guess ;)

done that, and talked on IRC with some debian-arm developers and Kero, 
and it seems that noone is using 2.0.x on arm, these days. So in order 
to make maintenance easier, I propose to remove the support for that, 
and simply make it work with the current kernels. Unfortunately, 
handhelds.org seems down, and HP's testdrive seems to have taken offline 
their arm machines, so I don't have a box to test on atm.

cheers,
dalibor topic