Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Patch for m68k architecture

>>At 8:29 AM -0700 6/10/99, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>>>This patch should enable 6.5 to build on Motorola 68000 architecture. It
>>>comes
>>>from Roman Hodek <Roman(dot)Hodek(at)informatik(dot)uni-erlangen(dot)de>.
>>
>>Has anyone compared the Linux/m68k patch with the NetBSD/m68k patch (which
>>I believe was already included in 6.5)?
>
>yes.
>
>>Also I have been trying to cross-post some traffic on the
>>port-mac68k(at)NetBSD(dot)org list to the PG-ports list and it hasn't been
>>appearing afaict. Am I just not looking carefully enough or is something
>>screwy?
>
>I have tried 6.4beta4 on NetBSD 1.3.3/m68k. It failed while running
>initdb:
>
>Creating template database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
>
>FATAL: s_lock(001bbea3) at bufmgr.c:1992, stuck spinlock. Aborting.
>
>FATAL: s_lock(001bbea3) at bufmgr.c:1992, stuck spinlock. Aborting.
>
>Seems something really bad is going on...

I reverted back the patch for include/storage/s_lock.h and seems
NetBSD/m68k port begins to work again.

I think we should revert back the linux/m68k patches and leave them
for 6.5.1. Objection?
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Tatsuo Ishii