From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 13:27:42 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 533A316A4CE; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BD943D46; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i56KZ8Ma043698; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:35:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <40C37E1C.4000402@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:27:08 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention 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: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 20:27:42 -0000 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. Scott