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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [4616] NPTL host detection and futex syscall
	passthrough.
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:14:09 +0100
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Cc: Stuart Anderson <anderson@netsweng.com>

On Thursday 29 May 2008, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Revision: 4616
> >          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4616
> > Author:   pbrook
> > Date:     2008-05-29 14:34:11 +0000 (Thu, 29 May 2008)
> >
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > NPTL host detection and futex syscall passthrough.
>
> I'm glad to see this (and the recent TLS) patches make it in finally!
>
> This patch however doesn't handle private futexes which we're now seeing
> in the field, nor does it handle byte swaping as is needed for certain
> host/target combinations.

Byteswapping should work fine.

Paul