I can't claim to be an expert on this subject, but the kernel part is
only necessary for NPTL to my knowledge, so a more modern glibc can
made available for m68k once binutils and gcc do the right things with
__thread (I've already did some work building glibc 2.7 with
linuxthreads, with a nice amount of success, but to make it work
properly, binutils and gcc needs to understand TLS).
I'd also be interested in helping out with this project.
Michael
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Brad Boyer <flar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:19:49PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Michael Casadevall wrote:
SInce its been almost a year since I last saw anything on the subject,
is there any work in implementing TLS in the kernel? I've been doing
some research, and as far as I can tell, the TLS API is ~5-6 syscalls,
so I'm curious to know if anyone has done any work in this regard. It
would be nice to have an up-to-date glibc ...
I can't answer the kernel question, but the binutils implementation is in
progress.
Was anyone at CodeSourcery going to look at the kernel part? I will
most likely have some time in August to look at it, but the next
few weeks are likely to still be pretty busy for me. My job has
been pretty long hours lately due to an upcoming release deadline.
There's plenty of stuff on my list to do if someone else is going
to look into the TLS code.
Brad Boyer
flar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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