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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:03:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Nontrivial brokeness with new threads.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402241101200.67378-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <16443.40099.996797.886860@canoe.dclg.ca>

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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David Gilbert wrote:

> >>>>> "Doug" == Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> writes:
> 
> Doug> See UPDATING and list discussion. KSE and the nvidia driver
> Doug> don't get along.
> 
> I feel like I should be in a foul mood.  I solicited information on
> how nvidia might be broken and what number of stars on one's belt were
> required to fix it.  Or someone being _helpful_ might comment on
> whether or not nvidia's help is required to fix it.
> 
> ... instead _unhelpfully_ of pointing out something that I was already
> up-to-date on.

>From what I know, you will need to map libpthread to libc_r until we get 
TLS (Thread Local Storage (not a part of pthread standard but needed by
nvidia) working. At that point they will recompile the drivers to
use it.
In teh mean while they use %gs for their own purposes which colides with 
threads using it as a thread pointer.


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