On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:57:20 -0500
>Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to apply the following small patch as a start on at least
>> deprecating the hell out of LINUXTHREADS_OLD.  All it does is stop it
>> showing up in menuconfig, and make the symbol default to n.
>> 
>> We really do need to get down to one pthreads implementation before
>> we start adding nptl-threads, and getting the new we have a better
>> chance of maintaining actually widely tested is an important part of
>> that.
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
>
>It will remove threads support for AVR32 architecture, so I would say
>no to apply it.
>
>I agree that we should aim for all architectures to have NPTL, but only
>after all the architectures actually are working with this thread
>library IMHO.

agree.
Rob, if you want to deprecate linuxthreads.old after the 0.9.30 release
then please go to the NPTL branch and add support for i386, powerpc,
m68k etc, etc either against nptl or linuxthreads.new.
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