NPTL support for MIPS

[James Chapman]

Sagar Borikar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Carmelo AMOROSO
> <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 23:41:39 Sagar Borikar wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We wanted to add NPTL support on our platform built in uClibc. While
>>>>> browsing, I figured out that 0.9.30 was supposed to merge the
>>>>> uclibc-nptl branch. But in the sources I don't see that. Can anyone
>>>>> let me know the status?
>>>> Its not merged yet.
>>>>
>>>>> I also find that uclibc-nptl branch  varies a lot compared to trunk.
>>>> Yes one reason is that it was carved out log ago.
>>>>
>>>>> Shall I consider uclibc-nptl branch production ready?
> concerning sh, definitely yes: actually used on production !
> 
>> That means, for MIPS, its not yet production ready. So I presume you
>> won't recommend using it for the products on field, right. I am
>> reluctant to use glibc / crosstool to add this support but looks like
>> there is no alternative then :(

If you are willing to go back to an earlier version, svn 18513 works for
MIPS. Unfortunately it's almost 2 years old. There are probably more
recent versions which work, but it's the version I'm currently using for
MIPS NPTL.

>>>> Its got some testing on sh and arm but for mips there has not been any testing
>>>> lately.
>>>>
>>>>> All pointers are welcome
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Sagar
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