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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] glibc and NPTL, problem, workarounds, etc.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:32:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912193237.GA8253@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409122127.12738.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:27:12PM +0200, BlaisorBlade wrote:

> Are you sure? I remember that NPTL needs using some new instructions
> of i686 (maybe CMOVxx) for futexes, to be atomic.

i586 and later i486 will suffice

> However, if I'm wrong, we could even pretend to be i386.

NPTL can be made to work too there I'm told, with a little more
effort.  I'm not sure if anyone will ever bother...

> Well, you compile Gentoo for your own processor - you might maybe
> even enable -mregparm for everything (which even breaks binary
> compatibility everything).

i was thinking gentoo on a i585 would maybe build /lib/tls/i586


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      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-12 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-08 19:02 [uml-devel] glibc and NPTL, problem, workarounds, etc William Stearns
2004-09-08 20:08 ` Steven Pritchard
2004-09-12 18:20 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-09-12 19:02   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 19:27     ` BlaisorBlade
2004-09-12 19:32       ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]

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