Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:27:08 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention Message-ID: <40C37E1C.4000402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406061551210.16558-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Scott Long wrote: > > >>All, >> >>We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. As it >>stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. There are reports of >>significant instability on amd64, and it doesn't work at all on alpha >>and sparc64. I'm willing to drop the alpha requirement and maybe even >>the sparc64 requirement, but there absolutely will not be a 5.3 until >>amd64 is solid. Please contact myself, Dan Eischen, and David Xu if >>you are interested in helping out. > > > amd64 looks to be a problem in readline which doesn't seem > to redispatch signal handlers with SA_SIGINFO arguments. > > David also has patches for debugging support at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse/dbg/ > > Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce. What platforms? My understanding was that new binutils and gcc was needed for sparc64 at a minimum. > It'd be nice to get TLS and debugging in before 5.3-release. > Yes. Be aware that there is a serious effort to get GDB 6.x into the tree for 5.3. That presents us with a bit of a dilemma since David's work is against GDB 5.x. It's hard to back off on the GDB 6 requirement since it is needed for amd64 and sparc64. We need to get David, Marcel, David O'brien, and Alexander Kabaev together to work out the combined picture. Scotthome | help
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