On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:08:56PM -0400, Kumba wrote: > >I am looking into porting NPTL to MIPS. Just curious if > >anybody has tried this before. > > > >I notice there was a discussion about the ABI extension > >for TLS (thread local storage) support. Before that support > >becomes a reality it seems one can still use NPTL with > >the help of additional system calls. > > > >A rough search of latest glibc source shows there is > >zero MIPS code for nptl. A couple of other arches > >are missing as well (such as ARM) > > > >Jun > > All I've heard about this is that some kernel changes are (still?) > needed, then just the glibc support along w/ TLS (Maybe compiler support?). > > I believe I heard reports that the glibc people were looking to > deprecate linuxthreads within a another release or two (but don't know > specifics or anything), so it sounds like NPTL should be something to > get working. Threading support means breaking the ABI compatibility. There are other issues that can best be solved by breakin the ABI which is why this is stretching out. Ralf
