Hi Aurélien, On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:49:45AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Thread Local Storage (TLS) support has been added to the toolchain > (binutils, gcc, glibc) some times ago. Currently about half of the > architectures have full TLS support (ie binutils + gcc + glibc). > > If we count the glibc in experimental all the architectures but the > following have TLS support: > - hppa > It has TLS support in upstream binutils, in gcc 4.1, and there are > patches available for glibc, they seems to work. Some people are still > working on this. I will send a separate mail for that. > > - m68k > AFAIK, there is no TLS support in binutils, gcc and glibc. You also told me glibc 2.5 *cannot* compile without TLS support and that is *critical* for the m68k port. > - hurd-i386 > It has TLS support in binutils, gcc, and glibc, but it is currently > disabled in glibc (if I remember correctly, it is due to kernel > freeze with TLS activated). > > Until now (and for Etch), it was not really a problem for an > architecture to not have TLS support. However TLS is starting to be used > in some packages. This include for example glibc 2.4 (but we have > patches to workaround that), or recent versions of libselinux, so as you > can see core packages. > > In short TLS support will probably be unavoidable and a requirement for > etch + 1. I think it is time for you porters (mainly for m68k and > hurd-i386) to start working on TLS support so that it will be ready for > etch + 1. > > For m68k, it seems nobody has stepped up as a glibc maintainer [1], > which results in an unbuildable glibc 2.4 on m68K. Thanks to Ingo > Juergensmann, I have access to a m68k machine, and I have started to fix > the problems. But I don't have the time nor the envy to work on TLS > support. So please work on that. Do you mean a Debian maintainer or an upstream maintainer for m68k glibc? If only I had the time... Several people have talked about TLS support for m68k, but it seems nobody has done it so far. I replied to your post, because it seems to have been ignored and I felt a bit ashamed of that. ;) Anyway, I will try to look in the issue and contact the people who spoke about it earlier on this list. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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