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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:24:58 -0600
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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P on Lemote Yeeloong
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The glibc on your notebook probably doesn't have getcontext
implemented. Google for "glibc mips getcontext".

Thanks,
    Lucho

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> I thought things were running too smoothly. =A0I got P9P to compile on
> the Lemote Yeeloong with only very frequent ocurrences of warnings
> (they seem like compile-time warnings) to the effect that each of
> getcontext, makecontext and swapcontext "is not implemented and will
> always fail".
>
> Now, the Yeeloong is a notebook based on a MIPS cpu and endowed with
> Open Architecture, Open BIOS (called PMON) and Linux (Debian). =A0The
> man page for getcontext() seems to suggest that it exists, but
> executing, say, acme fails with:
>
> "threadalloc getcontext: function not implemented"
>
> So close to getting there, but I must be missing something. =A0Does
> anyone know what?
>
> ++L
>
>
>