Bug#680704: iceweasel/xulrunner: Loongson-2f mipsel iceweasel/xulrunner hasn't been working since several versions back.

[Steven Chamberlain]

block 680704 by 692053
thanks

Hi,

On 24/12/12 20:24, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> It applies a patch though over version 17, which changes the PageShift
> to 14 for mips:

The hangs we both see in iceweasel 10 on loongson-2f seem similar to
#692053 on ia64, which was due to non-4K page size.  Stefan Schreiber
has just come up with a patch for it.  If there is a new upload to
unstable with that patch we should both re-test.

I will test sooner if my netbook seems capable of building iceweasel.


> http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson2f/testing/iceweasel/iceweasel17/fix_loongson_PageSize.patch

That might fix things for loongson-2f with 16K page size - but do *all*
MIPS systems have the same?

On ia64 for example it can vary across hardware, so it would be wrong to
hard-code it.  If it's the same situation on mips(el) too then this
seems better:

> http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson2f/testing/iceweasel/iceweasel17/Don-t-hardcode-page-size-on-ia64-or-sparc.patch

That change (already applied in Debian experimental only for ia64/sparc)
should perhaps also apply to mips(el).  It seems it might fix the build
issue of iceweasel 17 in experimental.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org