From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:16:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]:11409 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133646AbWFIBP6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 02:15:58 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown[69.140.185.142]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20060609011551m1200o6511e>; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:15:52 +0000 Message-ID: <4488CBCC.4090405@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:15:56 -0400 From: Kumba User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org CC: "Joseph S. Myers" Subject: Re: N32 sigset and __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ References: <20060608165136.GA17152@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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: 11705 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 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > I might conclude that barely anybody is *yet* using NPTL on 64-bit MIPS at > all, for either endianness, given that most of the problems I've been > finding, in glibc as well as the kernel, don't seem endian-specific and > would probably show up in a glibc testsuite run for either endianness. > MIPS64 NPTL is very new and seems to do a good job of showing up bugs in > the three syscall interfaces. I'm actually going to start running some automated builds of a nptl/o32 and nptl/n32 userland over the next few days. If you have any patches that need testing to correct known oddities, I can give them a run in these builds. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "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