From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:16:52 -0700 Received: from gateway-490.mvista.com ([63.192.220.206]:50172 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:16:41 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (IDENT:jsun@orion.mvista.com [10.0.0.75]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9QLEr308975; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:14:53 -0700 Message-ID: <39F89F81.1A34F7C@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:17:53 -0700 From: Jun Sun X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lehrer CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Threads on mips References: <200010261455.IAA05015@home.knm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Mark Lehrer wrote: > > Hello! I am just getting started with one of the MIPS embedded > platforms, the NEC VR4122. I downloaded the kernel & ramdisk from the > linux-vr web pages. > > Some of the apps I'm trying to port over use pthreads; however, the > pthread library that is included doesn't appear to work - the process > that tries to create a thread just waits forever until I hit ctrl-c. > I have worked with linux-vr before and tried to get pthread working. The glibc v2.0.7 had several problems in terms of getting pthread working. > Is anyone using threads with the mips embedded platforms? If so, what > kernel, libc, and pthreads library are you using? > I just found a bug in kernel yesterday. After the temporary fix, my pthread test program seems to work. I am using glibc 2.0.6. Kernel is v2.4 from cvs tree. > If not, has anyone thought about what it might take to get threads to > work? > I am thinking about that a lot. :-) I like to get ViewML, a web broswer, working. It requires pthreads. Jun