Re: MIPS64/N64 support

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:48:48AM +0400, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
> > Sure the kernel, needs to have n64 support enabled, to run n64 binaries. I
> > imagine it would be detected at ELF header though, and not simply getting
> > failing syscalls.
> 
> > I'm sorry, but I don't know what problem is that. Are you running a recent
> > kernel, first?
> 
> Linux-libre 3.5.3 from gNewSense.  Which version would you recommend?
> 
> Also, I remember that it was necessary to disable CONFIG_EXT4_FS and
> CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23.  Is it fixed now?  Do you have a working
> config for Linux-libre?

In fact I was reluctant to raise again the ext4 topic ;) But I think 3.5.3 has a
broken readdir() syscall in ext4. I think it's not a problem of kernel options
active. You simply have to avoid using ext4 (or even ext3, I can't recall).