[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/uclibc: enable linuxthreads for MIPS

Mircea GLIGA mgliga at bitdefender.com
Fri May 21 11:36:44 UTC 2021


Hi Yann,

Your proposal looks good: it's cleaner + it covers everything supported
by uClibc-ng.
I also tested with my configuration and it seems fine.


Thanks and regards,
Mircea Gliga

On 5/21/21 1:30 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
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> Mircea, All,
> 
> On 2021-05-21 12:59 +0300, Mircea GLIGA spake thusly:
>> Required for systems that do not have FUTEX support in kernel.
>> Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) relies on futexes, so we need
>> to use LinuxThreads instead on that systems.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mircea GLIGA <mgliga at bitdefender.com>
>> ---
>>   package/uclibc/Config.in | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/uclibc/Config.in b/package/uclibc/Config.in
>> index e59fef3c69..ae27bc18fb 100644
>> --- a/package/uclibc/Config.in
>> +++ b/package/uclibc/Config.in
>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ config BR2_PTHREADS_NATIVE
>>
>>   config BR2_PTHREADS
>>        bool "linuxthreads"
>> -     depends on BR2_m68k || BR2_microblaze || BR2_or1k || BR2_arm || BR2_armeb || BR2_xtensa
>> +     depends on BR2_m68k || BR2_microblaze || BR2_or1k || BR2_arm || BR2_armeb || BR2_xtensa || BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel
> 
> I was a bit annoyed by this very logn line, so I took the liberyty to
> split it, but then I looked at uclibc-ng for the list of architectures
> that still has LT support, and it turns out that almost all do, except:
> 
>    - AArch64 (both endianness)
>    - riscv64
>    - metag (irrelevant for Buildroot)
> 
> So I think it would be better to change the way we expose BR2_PTHREADS
> for uClibc:
> 
>      config BR2_PTHREADS
>          bool "linuxthreads"
>          depends on !BR2_aarch64 && !BR2_aarch64_be
>          depends on !BR2_RISCV_64
> 
> Could you please respin with this, please?
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
>>        select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
>>
>>   config BR2_PTHREADS_NONE
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
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