Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:37:05 am Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: > >> Nitin Gupta wrote: >> >>>> On Monday 27 August 2007 5:01:13 pm Steven Rostedt wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I'm writing a chapter in the upcoming revision of Building Embedded >>>>> Linux Systems. In the chapter I talk about futexes and the new Priority >>>>> Inheritance support (robust futexes as well). This is only supported >>>>> if the libc supports it too. So my question is, >>>>> >>>>> 1) Does uClibc support futexes >>>>> >>>> The NPTL branch (which is slated to become 0.9.30) does. 0.9.29 >>>> doesn't. >>>> >>>> http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/linuxsymposium_procv1-pages-409-420.pdf >>>> http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/slides/sjh-ols-2006-presentation.odp >>>> >>> Are you guys planning to merge NPTL branch to release 0.9.30? >>> >> Thuis is the plan, according to latest mails exchanged with Steve >> > > At this point, it might be easier to just overwrite the current svn tree with > the contents of the NPTL branch. The reason they havent' done it yet is > they're not quite sure what regressions that might introduce (somebody has to > go through the svn history since the NPTL branch and merge all the important > changes into the NPTL branch). > I periodically try to include some changes on trunk within nptl locally (especially in case of bugs fixes), but, you're right, it seems there isn't currently so much activities on uClibc... is is due to summer time? holidays? > This would be so much easier if we were using a real source control system > like mercurial, of course. "hg clone http://sjhill.???/nptl; cd nptl; hg > pull -u uclibc.org/hg/uclibc"... > > >>> Which >>> architectures will be supported? >>> I remember seeing support for arm/thumb, ppc, mips in various >>> branches/emails. >>> > > It seems like sjhill is maintaining the next release. (Or at least the > primary developer thereof, at the moment.) Could we bug him for a status > report, do you think? > I think Steve is always in listening on the list... > >> Our patches have been already sent to Steve for a review/merge work on >> June. I'm the responsible for the NPTL port on ST and I'd be happy to >> provided some helps for >> the merge stuff if required, or discuss about some implementation >> choices we did. >> > > There hasn't been a whole lot of discussion on this list about any uClibc > development recently, and I haven't noticed it on #uclibc on freenode either. > > It all seems to be happening silently out of tree. Probably I should look at > the other branch... > > http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/uClibc-nptl/ > neither there are being activities on the branch. Further, I recently wrote an email to Mike to get news about the plan for the merge... still not received a reply. Carmelo > Rob >
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