Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-25 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:59:25 +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Yes, this is acceptable. > > The current amd64 port does not support the 2.4 kernel at all. > There is no kernel-image-2.4 package in the amd64 archives > and I think there never will be one. The 2.4 kernel does not support > the amd64

Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-14 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Sep-14 11:18, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:21:39 +0200, > Using 2.4 or 2.6 kernel is user's decision. I guess amd64 2.4 kernel > is also used a lot, but I don't know the fact. Note that pthread is > used in various places, even users do not notice. > > If we drop amd64 2.4

Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-13 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:21:39 +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > However, I suspect that this magic is not necessary on amd64 > since the amd64 archive works without it. Do we really need > linuxthreads on amd64? We do not (and will never) support 2.4 kernels > on amd64, so I guess it is not necessar

Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-13 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Sep-13 15:05, GOTO Masanori wrote: > This is because /lib/tls is not used in default even on 2.6 amd64 > kernel. We use some magic to use /lib/tls on i386. So I think it's > good idea to introduce code which uses /lib/tls on x86_64, instead of > dropping linuxthreads on 2.4. Thank you for

Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-12 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:37:20 +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > The attached patch changes the following file of the glibc package: > > * debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk: > > Drop the 'nptl' pass from GLIBC_PASSES. > > Use 'nptl' instead of 'linuxthreads' in the 'libc' pass (this requires > ke

Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

2004-09-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
Package: glibc Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The attached patch changes the following file of the glibc package: * debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk: Drop the 'nptl' pass from GLIBC_PASSES. Use 'nptl' instead of 'linuxthreads' in the 'libc' pass (this requires kernel >= 2.6.0, but 2.4 is no