From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGpE4-0007Yl-Tb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:48:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8I2glqR023344; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:42:47 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8I2glp3016882 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:42:47 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp0011842295pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[69.251.97.45]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005091802480601200qqg1pe>; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:48:06 +0000 Message-ID: <432CD527.4080504@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:47:03 -0400 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org CC: mips@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2006.0? nptl? References: <1126874155.23324.87.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1126878160.5917.112.camel@alto> In-Reply-To: <1126878160.5917.112.camel@alto> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4943ec0a-278f-4ef4-891d-cd4541585ea7 X-Archives-Hash: 213da214287e23dc6ef94d3741c88387 solar wrote: > mips, This is happening, but we would need to make a major leap forward on some packages. We'd need at bare minimum, gcc-4.1 CVS HEAD, glibc CVS HEAD, and binutils CVS HEAD just to even get the compiler base built. considering we're still on 3.4.4, I don't see this happening for awhile. geoman's been working on a gcc-4 userland, and has been finding some solutions around some rather annoying bugs, like a librt patch we copied from debian back in 2003 that came back and bit us, as well as some studies of a new -msym32 flag to replace out o64 hacks in IP22/IP32 kernels. We also use a patch for gcc-3.4.4 that adds optimization (-march/-mtune) support for the R10000 processors that hasn't been ported to gcc-4 or carried upstream. Every attempt I've made to get some gcc-hacker to port it (it's only 12kb), I either get no response or a link to the gcc info manual on compiler internals. Once these are fixed, then there's the fun part of actually testing everything. On two ABIs (o32/n32) as well. And n32 is kind of stuck in the mud again due to an undiscovered pthreads bug that h0rks our glib package, making a userland a bit impractical. Safely stated, I think we're gonna be in linuxthreads-land for a wee bit longer :) > sparc, I have this running on my Blade 100, and it seems to work well, even with glibc-2.3.5 in portage. Weeve probably has better info on its support, though. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list