From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200210091634.MAA28260@makai.watson.ibm.com> To: Kevin Hendricks Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-devel@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com Subject: Re: Status of 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux, anyone working with NPTL? In-Reply-To: Message from Kevin Hendricks of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:12:36 EDT." <8B16CEB0-DB99-11D6-BCE2-0030654D6A26@ivey.uwo.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:34:28 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Kevin Hendricks writes: Kevin> Also, is anyone here actively working on Ulrich Drepper's New Posix Kevin> Thread Library (NPTL) to add in support for ppc Linux? Has anyone Kevin> decided on what register will be used for Thread Local Storage on PPC Kevin> (32bit)? (Is this r13 on ppc64?). Have the necessary modifications to Kevin> the ABI/compiler been made to support a dedicated thread local storage Kevin> register? There still is a question of what the final version of thread support will look like in Glibc. TLS support has not been added to PowerPC GCC yet. GPR 13 is reserved for the thread ID. I do not know whether that also can be used as the TLS base pointer. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/