On 12/21/2008 3:20 AM, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 20 December 2008 02:37:04 Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
>>     
>>> Khem, Bernhard
>>> IMO the effort required for merging new stuff (not bug but basically
>>> cleanup, warning and so on) from trunk to nptl branch, is becoming
>>> to huge, and it is not helping us into having a working NPTL branch
>>> getting benefits from this. Guys are putting new changes into trunk
>>> faster than me.
>>>
>>> Indeed we had a lot of problems in the nptl branch due to changes
>>> in signal handling for example (there are still few files that I did
>>> not merge because they caused nptl branch stopping to work).
>>>
>>> At this stage my proposal is to start *now* putting TLS/futexes/NPTL code
>>> into the trunk.
>>>       
>> I believe I've been saying this for 3 years now.
>>
>> Please, please, please merge into trunk.  The code doesn't _matter_ until 
>> you 
>> do.  The number of people who have ever tested this branch in its entire 
>> history is probably a single digit number.  
>>     
>
> ok, but just fyi there are real STB products of ST customers
> that have uclibc-nptl for sh4... so it is really running.
>   

And we at Tilera are shipping code off of Carmelo's branch as well. 
Obviously we'd be even happier to be shipping code that was off the
trunk :-)

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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