ARM NPTL support for uClibc

[Steven J. Hill]

Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> 
> With much respect and appreciation for Steve Hill's work, we'd like to
> suggest that these changes, once reviewed and revised, be included
> directly on the uClibc trunk, rather than going through Steve's branch
> and being merged to the trunk in December, as he suggested on Tuesday.
> This is an opportunity for uClibc to benefit from Steve's and
> CodeSourcery's efforts immediately, and support NPTL today, on one of
> the most popular embedded processors.  Maintaining this patch
> off-trunk through December would be a substantial burden for
> CodeSourcery; patches of this scale bitrot quickly.
>
As I plainly stated last week, no NPTL will be allowed into the mainline,
only on the branch. The decision still stands.

> test                    GNU C Library           uClibc-0.9.28-csl-nptl-4
> ================        =============           ========================
> nptl/tst-cancel7        fail                    fail
> nptl/tst-cancelx7       fail                    fail
> nptl/tst-exec4          fail                    fail
> tls/tst-tls6            pass                    fail (regression)
>
Both tst-cancel7 and tst-exec4 work for me just fine in both uClibc and
glibc for MIPS.

-Steve