From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 09:11:10 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 A937E16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:11:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83ABE43D58 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:11:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from ns0.nlsystems.com (ns0.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.243]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5796iFs016661 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:06:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:11:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406071011.01370.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean 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: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:11:10 -0000 On Sunday 06 June 2004 20:55, 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. > It'd be nice to get TLS and debugging in before 5.3-release. I'll probably try to commit some kind of TLS support into current in the next couple of weeks. Its likely to only support i386 and will be stubbed out for other platforms. Right now, I'm just waiting for some kind of feedback from an nvidia developer whos testing it.