On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:03:12PM -0800, John Hawkes wrote:
> I would appreciate greatly if each of you would give me a brief summary
> of what you've been doing, personally and as a project, and where the
> current roadblocks are. Simon is especially interested in having a
> visible list of bugworks PV bugs. And yes, I do understand that some of
> the roadblocks are in the compilers. We need to clarify exactly what
> the problems are before we can motivate that part of the Engineering
> organization to fix them.
Binutils are our worst problem at this point. Binutils are very complex
and it's been very hard for Ulf Carlsson to fix one thing without
breaking something else. Due to the linker issues we're still stuck
with glibc 2.0 and cannot get various programs like many C++ programs
or libg++ working. At the same time we've run into problems with the
kernel also due to the linker. So our compiler problem is mostly a
binutils problem, except one egcs bug which we've got a workaround for
we have no problems with the mips64-linux-gcc egcs 1.1.2 deriver compiler
we're using.
As for the kernel, I'm currently working on SMP support even though the
UP kernel is still more than fragile.
Ralf
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