From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 13:31:12 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 3828316A513 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:31:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.qubesoft.com (gate.qubesoft.com [217.169.36.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03B243D66 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:31:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from bluebottle.qubesoft.com (bluebottle.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.2]) by mail.qubesoft.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i57DUukM060910; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:30:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from builder02.qubesoft.com (builder02.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.8]) i57DUtON080229; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:30:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: Daniel Eischen In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086615054.10911.17.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:30:55 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' 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 13:31:12 -0000 On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:14, Daniel Eischen wrote: > 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? Yes. Our compiler always generates code like this: movl %gs:0,%eax movl 1234,%ntpoff(foo)(%eax)