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Re: PPC32 and state of the project
- From: "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <kevin dot hendricks at sympatico dot ca>, Paul Mackerras <paulus at au1 dot ibm dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>, GNU libc devel <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:38:54 -0600
- Subject: Re: PPC32 and state of the project
Kevin B. Hendricks writes:
> Hi Franz,
> > 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?
Paul Mackerras is working on the *context function based on the PPC64
versions I submitted to glibc. I think the base function is there but other
shlib_compat changes are needed for ppc32 glibc related to the ABI change.
The gcc changes for PPC32/PPC64 tls are on Alan Modra's TODO list.
>
> > - 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?
I think Paul Mackerras is also working on the prctl syscal for 2.5 kernels.