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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:29:20 -0500
From:      Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
To:        Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
Cc:        debian-mips@lists.debian.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Subject:   Re: glibc port to kfreebsd/mips
Message-ID:  <4D67CAD0.5020604@codesourcery.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimMZAMX6ymhXRhaxng3_xOjHB-MK07fqtrpPv9c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/25/2011 9:40 AM, Robert Millan wrote:
> This is work in progress: http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_MIPS

Cool!

> The good:
> 
> - Basic userland working. Tested: bash, coreutils, gdb, make, binutils, gcc
> 
> The bad:
> 
> - Static binaries only; Dynamic linker crashes (both ld.so and libdl,
> although libdl works for small objects).
> - NSS (hence getpwuid et al) crashes as it relies on libdl.
> - TLS not implemented as it requires some kernel fixes first.
> - Thread support not implemented either (but LinuxThreads is needed for build).

Please don't use LinuxThreads for a new port. It is unmaintained.

Is there any reason you aren't using NPTL? Lack of futex-compatible
syscall?

> The ugly:
> 
> - Doesn't work on QEMU yet (gxemul works though).
> 

Cheers,
Carlos.
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Carlos O'Donell
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