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Re: PPC32 and state of the project
Hi Franz,
> On PPC32 we can simply use R2 as the thread register, it's unused and
> saved/restored by the kernel (in the kernel it's used for the 'current'
> pointer) and doesn't require any changes to the ABI.
Okay R2 it is. I will start looking at the linuxthreads code mods for
using R2
> Besides the thread related stuff, there are a few less important things
> on my TODO:
>
> - *context functions need implementation
where should I be looking in the glibc code for these?
> - control FPU via the prctl syscall instead of messing with a signal
> handler
The latter is just to get around the fact you need to be at priv level and
not user level to play with the fpu control register right?
> Franz.
Thanks,
Kevin