ARM NPTL support for uClibc

[Erik Andersen]

On Sun Aug 20, 2006 at 10:04:41PM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> 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.

Sorry about that.  I was out of town visiting my brother...

> > <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.

Hmm, I suppose that also needs merging into the final mix as
well then.

 -Erik

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