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> References: <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. -- Carlos O'Donell Mentor Graphics / CodeSourcery carlos@codesourcery.com +1 (650) 331-3385 x716
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