On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:08:53AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:05:05PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > CodeSourcery has been investigating implementing TLS (Thread-Local > > > Storage) and NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) for ColdFire > > > processors. The proposed TLS ABI for ColdFire and m68k, including the > > > required kernel interfaces, is below; any comments? > > > > Out of curiosity, has any progress been made? I think we're going to > > need to update glibc rather soonish and it would be nice to have TLS > > and NTPL, otherwise it's going to get ugly. > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/02/msg00212.html> and > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/03/msg00008.html> still apply: we > expect the implementations to be complete, validated and contributed some > time this year. (Note that the binutils multi-GOT patch, a prerequisite > for the binutils TLS work because both involve major changes to the same > areas in BFD, has been posted to the binutils list and revised in response > to reviewer comments. The plan is for the binutils TLS support to be > developed based on FSF binutils HEAD once the multi-GOT support is there - > so the multi-GOT patch is in that way progress towards TLS (and of course > there will be multi-GOT support for the new TLS relocations).) Based on > previous experience implementing TLS and NPTL for other targets, I expect > them to be ready for the end of Stage 2 for GCC 4.4 development (August by > current plans), but even if the GCC patch isn't ready then to go in FSF > GCC 4.4 I expect we'll still post it as soon as it's ready to make it > available for inclusion in distributor versions of 4.4 and backporting to > older compiler versions if desired. Thanks for the update. :) -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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