Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-17 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 02:48:49 Matthieu CASTET wrote: Hi, Rob Landley a écrit : IIRC there have been some issues in the past... so, unless we are totally sure, we need to keep the working/stable and old linuxthreads.old. No, what we do is we keep the 0.9.29 tarball around and

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-17 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:12:15 Will Newton wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another. 2) Does it actually have anything to do with nptl?

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Matthieu CASTET
Hi, Rob Landley a écrit : IIRC there have been some issues in the past... so, unless we are totally sure, we need to keep the working/stable and old linuxthreads.old. No, what we do is we keep the 0.9.29 tarball around and if people have bugs trying to use 0.9.30 they _report_ them to

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another. 2) Does it actually have anything to do with nptl? Nothing, just dynamic linker, and obviously your compiler has to

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Matthieu CASTET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who said anything about NPTL? Right now, in 0.9.29, there's LINUXTHREADS_OLD and there's a second implementation of Linuxthreads that most people haven't been testing because they're still on LINUXTHREADS_OLD. There's

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Carmelo AMOROSO
Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another. Ok. 2) Does it actually have anything to do with nptl? Nothing, just dynamic linker, and obviously your compiler

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Well, we could ship now with a -rc1. Adding bug fixes as someone have Consider trunk the RC. bugs.uclibc.org has quite some stuff that currently does not work and also there were reports on this very list (e.g. the glob()

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:28 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another. [SNIP] IIRC there have been some issues in the

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Carmelo AMOROSO
Will Newton wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another. 2) Does it actually have anything to do with nptl? Nothing, just dynamic linker, and obviously your

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Carmelo AMOROSO
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Well, we could ship now with a -rc1. Adding bug fixes as someone have Consider trunk the RC. bugs.uclibc.org has quite some stuff that currently does not work and also there were reports on

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:03:15PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:28 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: 1) How platform specific is it? Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:44:43PM +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Well, we could ship now with a -rc1. Adding bug fixes as someone have Consider trunk the RC. bugs.uclibc.org has quite some

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:55 +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:03:15PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:28 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: 1) How platform

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernd Schmidt
Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: No, what we do is we keep the 0.9.29 tarball around and if people have bugs trying to use 0.9.30 they _report_ them to us. If they want to use the old threading code, they can use the old version of the library. If they want the new features, then they help us find

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-09-15 Thread Carmelo AMOROSO
Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 09:25:32 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Looking at what we have into the nptl branch is useful. Walk trough ldso directory and look for USE_TLS to see where you should put your hands to add TLS support. Working code is a good guide. Feel free to ask for

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-08-28 Thread Carmelo AMOROSO
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Cristi Magherusan wrote: Said that, I don't think addign TLS support for i386 is difficult, but we need someone having time to spend on it. Do you mean adding TLS support for the old linuxthreads branch on x86?

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-08-27 Thread Cristi Magherusan
Hello, On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:14 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: Cristi Magherusan wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 08:34 +0200, Carmelo Amoroso wrote: Cristi Magherusan wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell which revision of the NPTL branch is tested and confirmed to work well on x86? None,

Re: confirmed working NPTL revision?

2008-08-27 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Cristi Magherusan wrote: Said that, I don't think addign TLS support for i386 is difficult, but we need someone having time to spend on it. Do you mean adding TLS support for the old linuxthreads branch on x86? Perhaps it would be better to update