On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:39:54AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote:
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).
On some architectures, __thread could work without kernel support. If we implement it for m68k/ColdFire the way that was proposed, it would break without at least some kernel support. We don't have any extra registers to dedicate to TLS the way ppc does, for example. Brad Boyer flar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
