ARM NPTL support for uClibc

Steven J. Hill sjhill at realitydiluted.com
Mon Aug 21 03:04:41 UTC 2006


Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how you came to this decision.  I dont really making
> such a call, and despite my comparitive inactivity of late, I am
> still the maintainer of uClibc.  As dictator-for-life, I get to
> make this particular call.
>
I made it because you were not around or joining in on the discussion.

> <Official decree>
> We need to sort out the discrepancies between the ARM and MIPS
> nptl branches, and get the resulting grand unified patch
> supporting NPTL on both arches (with the foundational bits in
> place to later add support for other arches, and after ensuring
> that we still have linuxthreads for older 2.4 kernels) checked
> into trunk.
>
You are forgetting the SuperH architecture work by ST Micro that has
been done against the branch. That also plays into all of this. They
were nice enough to do their work against the branch and not the trunk.

-Steve



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