From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 13:14:55 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 326F616A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:14:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC42543D54 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (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 i57DEktD008667; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:14:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:14:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Doug Rabson In-Reply-To: <200406071011.01370.dfr@nlsystems.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-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: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:14:55 -0000 On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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. Are you using the extra (*(%gs)->tls) to get TLS? -- Dan Eischen