From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:05:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.202.55]:58558 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:05:10 +0100 Received: from gentoo.org (pcp04939029pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.48.72.58]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20040805010503011000d9a5e> (Authid: kumba12345); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:05:03 +0000 Message-ID: <411188A8.9040607@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:08:56 -0400 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: anybody tried NPTL? References: <20040804152936.D6269@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <20040804152936.D6269@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5598 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Jun Sun wrote: > I am looking into porting NPTL to MIPS. Just curious if > anybody has tried this before. > > I notice there was a discussion about the ABI extension > for TLS (thread local storage) support. Before that support > becomes a reality it seems one can still use NPTL with > the help of additional system calls. > > A rough search of latest glibc source shows there is > zero MIPS code for nptl. A couple of other arches > are missing as well (such as ARM) > > Jun All I've heard about this is that some kernel changes are (still?) needed, then just the glibc support along w/ TLS (Maybe compiler support?). I believe I heard reports that the glibc people were looking to deprecate linuxthreads within a another release or two (but don't know specifics or anything), so it sounds like NPTL should be something to get working. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond