Re: [gentoo-releng] 2006.0? nptl?

[Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:16 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:42 -0400, solar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 08:35 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > So... What do we say to going nptl across the board for 2006.0 on every
> > > platform that supports 2.6 headers?  This would, of course, require
> > > approval from each arch team, but I'm sure ppc and amd64 are chomping at
> > > the bits for this one, and it sounds like the x86 arch team is wanting
> > > it also.
> > 
> > ppc32 - has problems with nptl when not using linuxthreads (oddly it
> > works with ASLR in place however).
> > 
> > x86 - sometimes has problems with *some* clients and the RTLD. 
> > Seems to be a problem with ld.so paths and having intermixed 
> > nptl/shared/static handling but I'm not sure. I have had nothing but 
> > success on x86 with it, but others seem to.
> > 
> > amd64 - Seems to support it well.
> > 
> > mips, sparc, ia64, m68k, arm - (don't know)
> > 

Speaking only for ppc64 we have been running nptl or nptlonly systems
for a good while now and *almost* took the plunge to make it the default
in 2005.1. For us this would be a welcome change.

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Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
dostrow@gentoo.org

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