On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:52 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:15:37 -0500 Youness Alaoui >> <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've just updated my EFL build for the PS3 and it was broken. >> > eina_init isn't working anymore because eina_value doesn't init >> > itself correctly. The issue is that if it's unable to iitialize a >> > lock, it will fail the init which fails eina_init (and ecore_init, >> > etc..) The problem is that on the PS3, there is no pthread library so >> > threads are disabled on eina and eina_lock uses >> > eina_inline_lock_void.x which just returns FALSE/FAIL for every API >> > call. This also causes another issue with evas which slows it down >> > because it tries a eina_lock_take_try (which fails) and forces it to >> > wait a bit before doing anything then it spams my terminal with >> > warnings about not being able to get a lock. I would suggest to >> > change the behavior of eina_lock (on 'void' platforms, which do not >> > support locks) to always return TRUE/SUCCEED so it doesn't break >> > everything below it. >> >> I'm wondering how come a hyperthreaded CPU with a dozen extra >> specialized cores has no thread support? It might not have pthread, >> but it might have some other sort of thread support that could be used >> instead? >> > Yes it has threads support, and the official SDK (Which we can't legally > use) has pthread, but we don't have an open source port of pthread to their > own system calls. So for now I'm working with it without threading support. > I will eventually (some day) port pthread to it then all of this will go > away, in the meantime, I prefer to concentrate on other things (it also > helped me find a few bugs in the EFL for when it gets compiled without > threads)
if there's thread support, you can try to use the native one, like i did for Windows, right ? Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
