NPTL on x86, anyone?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Apr 10 06:26:12 UTC 2009


On Friday 10 April 2009 01:49:33 Timo Teräs wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 10 April 2009 01:07:52 Timo Teräs wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:24:53 Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> >>>> Is there anyone interested in porting the NPTL branch to x86/x86-64?
> >>>
> >>> always interested in accepting patches, but no one appears to be
> >>> interested in doing the porting work atm
> >>
> >> Did you all miss the mail I sent yesterday?
> >>
> >> http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042289.html
> >
> > i saw it, but i generally skim over things that make me go to an external
> > location
>
> The patch is about 70 kB. I find it good practice to send large
> (as in over 40-50kB) patches as URLs instead of as attachment/inline.
>
> But I can send it as attachment too if wanted.

meh, imo when dealing with open source projects (especially largish ones), 
100kB is a reasonable limit.  assuming your changes arent complete garbage of 
course (i glanced at the patch and it didnt look that way).

> I just noticed that some changes there are probably not right
> based on the recent MIPS patch discussion.
> E.g. pthread_cleanup_push_defer related things.

yes, changes outside of nptl specific code will have to be justified beyond 
"this allowed my port to work"
-mike
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