Hi,
Can anyone bring me up to date on the buildability and useability of the
latest 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux? How stable and useful are these
given the recent changes to revert back to 2.4 IDE code and other
changes?
Also, is anyone here actively working on Ulrich Drepper's New Posix
Thread Library (NPTL) to add in support for ppc Linux? Has anyone
decided on what register will be used for Thread Local Storage on PPC
(32bit)? (Is this r13 on ppc64?). Have the necessary modifications to
the ABI/compiler been made to support a dedicated thread local storage
register?
Any hints or guidance greatly appreciated?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin B. Hendricks
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology
Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
London Ontario, CANADA N6A 3K7
khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:12:36AM -0400, Kevin Hendricks wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone bring me up to date on the buildability and useability of the
latest 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux? How stable and useful are these
given the recent changes to revert back to 2.4 IDE code and other
changes?
Depending on the time and day of course, the linuxppc-2.5 tree is
generally left in a buildable state, at least for some target or
another. IMHO, it is still easiest to NFS root a 2.5 box than to worry
about IDE / SCSI being perfectly sane. That said, IDE / SCSI have been
rather sane for a while now, so the chances are low of you kicking
yourself for not having done a backup recently..
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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Kevin Hendricks wrote:
Also, is anyone here actively working on Ulrich Drepper's New Posix
Thread Library (NPTL) to add in support for ppc Linux? Has anyone
decided on what register will be used for Thread Local Storage on PPC
(32bit)? (Is this r13 on ppc64?). Have the necessary modifications to
the ABI/compiler been made to support a dedicated thread local storage
register?
Ehm, sorry for my silly question, but why it is necessary to keep
a register reserved for TLS ? Where can I find detailed infos about TLS ?
Bye.
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