From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Hawkins Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:11:54 +0000 Subject: lwp emulation Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hi everyone, To cut a long story short, we got a new UltraSPARC, installed UP-1.1, found out that our primary application won't run under emulation as lwp isn't implemented (yet), so now we're considering doing the port in our (ha!) spare time (the mentality goes something like "I'll do anything to finally rid this machine of Solaris" ;) At Jakub's suggestion we are going the way of reimplementing the Solaris threads libraries (well, the API) to do things the Linux (POSIX?) way. I just wanted some feedback as to what others felt about this little project and any suggestions/ideas you might have (all of us are newbie sparc people from the dark side (Intel;)) - oh, and is anybody else genuinely interested in having this support? Thanks, -- Matt http://www.topic.com.au/