Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:51:58 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:45:55AM -0400, Michael wrote:
> > Not sure, they ( o32 binaries of 5.99.19 vintage, last working userland
> > I have before MIPS got borked ) crashed immediately even with
> > COMPAT_NETBSD32 so for now at least it doesn't seem to be a loss. The
> > problem this is supposed to work around is that pkg_add gets its
> > MACHINE_ARCH from the build process where it's mips64eb while pkgsrc
> > via uname got it via COMPAT_NETBSD32 sysctl which returns mipseb.
> > Without compat it gets mips64eb. 
> 
> Sounds like two separate bugs worth a PR: uname -a output is wrong and
> o32 compat is broken. But the workaround should be backed out after fixing
> the uname thing.

Indeed.
So n32 binaries apparently use compat stuff when they shouldn't?

( and this is why I committed these config files in the first place ;) )

have fun
Michael