[arc-discuss] SUSPEND: Running out of time, and everything else. __/__ Re: The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Martin Bochnig]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> James Carlson wrote:
>> If you're interested in getting Core Contributor status yourself, or
>> if you believe there's someone out there who deserves it, then contact
>> the Community Group (or Groups) in question.  Ask to have that person
>> considered a Contributor or Core Contributor, and, in short order, the
>> problem is solved.
>>   
>
> I will wait until my current 15 hours per day projects have reached 
> more maturity (Xsun-ddx-wrapper for Xorg, DRM_on_SPARC, 
> VGA-Console_on_SPARC, small 100 lines patch against libpciaccess, two 
> other goodies I keep secret).


Myself:

On SPARC the alignment issues are making me dumb.
I have to suspend my Xorg-sparc ddx_wrapper activities for an indefinite 
time frame. It's so messy all over the place, e.g.:

Running: Xsun
(process id 1865)

dbx: internal error: signal SIGSEGV (no mapping at the fault address)
dbx's coredump will appear in /tmp
Abort (core dumped)
# LD_PRELOAD_32=/export/home
/bochnig/libXorg.so:/usr/openwin/server/lib/libmi.so.1__2.6:./shim.o mdb 
/usr/openwin/bin/Xsun
ld.so.1: mdb: fatal: relocation error: file 
/usr/openwin/server/lib/libmi.so.1__2.6: symbol endtab: referenced 
symbol not found
Killed
# LD_PRELOAD_32=/export/home/bochnig/libXorg.so:./shim.o mdb 
/usr/openwin/bin/Xsun
 > ::run
mdb: stop on SIGSEGV
mdb: target stopped at:
libc.so.1`strlen+0x50: ld [%o2], %o1
mdb: You've got symbols!
Loading modules: [ ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libproc.so.1 ]
 > $c
libc.so.1`strlen+0x50(fe1a6228, ff345ab8, 7fffffff, 7ffffc00, 17, ff36b6ec)
libXorg.so`xf86LogInit+0xe8(d3b68, fe100000, 1, fe780658, 98314, fe789d6c)
0xfe02196c(0, d3b68, 1, ffbffd24, d0ae8, c8bfc)
AddScreen+0x248(fe021968, 1, ffbffd24, d3b68, 0, d1628)
InitOutput+0x364(c8400, 1, ffbffd24, 4, 9, c840c)
main+0x2f4(d1400, d1400, c8c1c, d1400, d1628, c8bfc)
_start+0x108(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
 > ::stack
libc.so.1`strlen+0x50(fe1a6228, ff345ab8, 7fffffff, 7ffffc00, 17, ff36b6ec)
libXorg.so`xf86LogInit+0xe8(d3b68, fe100000, 1, fe780658, 98314, fe789d6c)
0xfe02196c(0, d3b68, 1, ffbffd24, d0ae8, c8bfc)
AddScreen+0x248(fe021968, 1, ffbffd24, d3b68, 0, d1628)
InitOutput+0x364(c8400, 1, ffbffd24, 4, 9, c840c)
main+0x2f4(d1400, d1400, c8c1c, d1400, d1628, c8bfc)
_start+0x108(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
 >

I'm now switching to working on something quite trivial, yet bringing me 
(at least) thousand times the appreciation, and at the same time frees 
up 5 hours each day (which leaves time to earn my daily bread).
You will learn more about it later this year.
Till then.

>
>> Complaining on this list (or, worse, imagining conspiracies involving
>> the participants) will not really change anything.
>
> I really dislike that entire discussion. But IMO Joerg Schilling is 
> being treated badly.
> And for the rest: Sun and the OGB are harming themselves much more 
> than I ever could with my justified comments.
> The sole fact that nobody seems to grasp this triggers me to write 
> those messages.
>
> I'll better stop policy related postings.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>