[arch-dev-public] [signoff] klibc stuff + mkinitcpio

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Oct 22 03:35:00 EDT 2009


Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Allan McRae schrieb:
>> I can confirm:
>>
>> ::Loading udev...  clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 1720416923ms)
>
> Newer udev doesn't work with klibc, it requires blkid, which we will 
> probably never be able to build with klibc.
>
> I want to get rid of klibc - it sucks, it's a nightmare, it's 
> unmaintained, it's crap, should I say more?
>
> The reason might be that I did some magic to the i686 version to make 
> it build, which might have been wrong - I have no idea.
>
> But then, I don't know why it would hang here, as according to Eric 
> everything seems to work (you can run udevadm, you can run modprobe 
> and so on). I might set up a test system with i686 and see for myself.
>

Just adding that I tried heaps of clocksource= options 
(acpi_pm,htc,jiffies,rtc) and none of them helped this issue.

Allan



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