Running spim or xspim version 7.3 causes it to hang immediately after startup. Upgrading to version 7.4 or 8.0 solves this issue for me. This may be related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369533 but is fixed there by upstream version 7.3. Please consider stabilizing version 7.4 and therefore making this bug obsolete. Attaching output of 'strace spim'. Running Linux Kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.32-r7. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 230941 [details] Output of 'strace spim'
waiting for ppc to resolve stablereq bug 328973, this can be closed by then.
spim-8.0-r1 stabilized, closing