From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 10:39:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6494016A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B2F43D1F for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i1PId2DF008187; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:39:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: FreeBSD current users In-Reply-To: <20040225181536.GB7567@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: TLS, Thread Local Storage.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:39:10 -0000 On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:06:22PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Now that the real threading libraries are in more common usage we need > > to tackle TLS. > > Uh... sparc64 and Alpha don't have KSE yet. Isn't that the next thing > that seriously needs tackeling??? >From the threads library point of view, adding TLS support can be done regardless of whether KSE works on sparc64 or alpha. The framework is all there for sparc64 and alpha and TLS support for them can be added just like the others. I view TLS support and KSE working on alpha/sparc64 as two disjoint things. -- Dan Eischen