Re: FOSDEM thoughts
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:49:09PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> > * What to do with glibc/TLS (anyone hear from CodeSourcery?)
>
> We are currently working with Freescale's kernel engineers on finalizing
> the kernel interface for TLS and NPTL. We expect the toolchain and kernel
> implementations to be completed, and contributed to FSF binutils / FSF GCC
> / EGLIBC / kernel.org, some time this year.
That's great to know, thanks!
> Obviously Debian would then need to backport patches to the relevant
> versions of the various components, although it's likely we will do a
> backport to GCC 4.3 for our own use at some point. The binutils changes
> are likely to overlap heavily with changes for multi-GOT support for
> ColdFire we have completed and will be contributing before starting the
> TLS work, so backporting TLS without also backporting multi-GOT may be
> tricky.
Given the fact that lenny is supposed to release near the end of this
year, and that the toolchain is going to be frozen sometime next month,
integrating your work into lenny is not going to be possible anymore.
Therefore, I think it's best if we just wait until your work is merged
upstream and trickles into Debian, but look out for any incompatibility
issues that might arise.
A heads-up when you're doing merges into the toolchain's respective
upstreams would be appreciated.
> (Multi-GOT addresses the issue mentioned in the ABI proposal of memory
> address offsets on ColdFire being limited to 16 bits while avoiding the
> larger and slower code sequences mentioned to use 32-bit offsets there.
> Either multi-GOT, or GCC support for generating such larger code sequences
> (also implemented and to be contributed), is needed to build some large
> pieces of software such as PHP for ColdFire.)
Right, that makes sense
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