[branch] nptl_merge

[Timo Teräs]

Hi,

Austin Foxley wrote:
> I've created a branch based on current master that has the entirety of the work
> done so far on nptl integrated. I attempted to break up into separate commits,
> related kinds of changes. Hopefully this well help in reviewing...
> 
> My thought was that people could review each commit and either reply to this
> email for discussion, or simply commit fixes for any issues directly to the
> nptl_merge branch. I'm going to start fixing up obvious style issues now to
> preempt some comments :)
> 
> I've tried hard to avoid reverting anybody's work, please let me know where I
> missed anything. Remember...I obviously didn't write most of this code...
> 
> Let's get this beast merged already!

This is something I've been waiting for a long time! Thanks!

I will definitely try to get the i386 side up and running. uClibc NPTL is one
of the things we listed for Alpine Linux (www.alpinelinux.org) to be in it's
next major release. I already earlier did some work earlier to see how far
away it is and got it working to some degree.

I did very quick test just now, but it did not compile; there was some issues
with stack protector support. But I'm sure I'll work on this with Natanael
Copa in the upcoming weeks.

Are there any known issues or things that still needs implementing?

Though, I guess we'll just go along and see what needs to be done to get the
usual stuff working we run on our boxes.

Thanks,
 Timo