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From: P@draigBrady.com
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: i486 emu in mainline?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:08:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B1BB78.70508@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040523115936.GB16726@alpha.home.local>

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:51:30AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:29:12AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:40:59AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>
>>>>These days gcc uses i486+ only instruction by default in libstdc++ so
>>>>most modern distros wouldn't work on i386 cpus anymore.  To make it work
>>>>again Debian merged Willy Tarreau's patch to trap those and emulate them
>>>>on real i386 cpus.  The patch is extremely non-invasive and would
>>>>certainly be usefull for mainline.  Any reason not to include it?
>>
>>>  - I couldn't emulate locks, so this will break on SMP systems, and so
>>>    will it if you need to access some memory share with an external
>>>    microcontroller or something like that.
>>
>>    Does this mean that programs that use the NPTL will work on
>>non-SMP 386s?
> 
> I have no idea. Why would NPTL not work on i386 ?

i386 doesn't have the necessary instructions.
It's my understanding that the following is not being maintained:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2004-05/msg00019.html

Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-22 23:40 i486 emu in mainline? Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-23  0:20 ` Rene Rebe
2004-05-23  7:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23  8:44   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23  9:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23  9:48       ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23  9:58         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 11:49         ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-23  9:20     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-23 17:11     ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-24  2:47       ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-27 21:03         ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-23  8:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 11:08   ` Alan Cox
2004-05-23 11:57     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 13:15       ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 15:17         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-24 17:41           ` Alan Cox
2004-05-25  9:36             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-25 13:48               ` Alan Cox
     [not found]   ` <20040523105130.GA588@samarkand.rivenstone.net>
2004-05-23 11:59     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-24  9:08       ` P [this message]
2004-05-23 15:18   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23 21:14     ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 12:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-05-25 17:21 ` Kronos
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-25 17:03 Albert Cahalan
2004-05-25 22:43 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 Nathanael Nerode

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