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Show stopper bugs for 5.0



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Hello,

here are a few problems I'd consider show stoppers, or rather which I'd like to see fixed before branching ( cc:ed to port-powerpc since most of this isn't really macppc-specific ): - - Xorg vs. rtld.c - someone with more compiler clue than me needs to look at this. We should have at least one working Xserver for 5.0. If we can't fix Xorg we should either fix jemalloc to play nicely with XFree86, revert to the old malloc or fix XFree86's module loader to deal with it. - - low memory corruption under heavy MP load. Appears to be a race and it doesn't seem to happen with LOCKDEBUG. - - at least on my 2x 7400 I need additional cache flushes in ld.so, otherwise the CPU occasionally tries to use reloc entries not yet written into memory which leads to userland crashes. Doesn't seem to happen with 745x CPUs, others with 7400s have reported the same problem. I'll check if it still happens, if it does we'll need to think about a proper solution here.

Anything I forgot?

have fun
Michael

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