"Lars Ewald (web.de)" <l.ewald-web@lars-ewald.de> writes:
>> We don't really consider a platform
>> supported unless it's got working spinlocks.
> I am a little bit confused about that.
Well, so are we.
> Or is there a problem on the specific machine? Or is there something disabled
> in the kernel?
It seems to be a toolchain problem, ie, compiler or assembler doing
something unexpected with our PPC spinlock code. But we don't really
have enough info to diagnose. I can think of a bunch of ways it might
have gone wrong, but we seem to have eliminated all those theories :-(
regards, tom lane