NPTL for powerpc

[Paul Brook]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 15:16, Srinivasa R Kanduru wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in PowerPC port of uClibc-nptl.  I am not sure if the work
> is in progress. I took the uClibc-nptl branch and had to make some changes
> to make it work. The changes were minimal like changing the definition of
> libc_hidden_*, adding nptl specific targets for the port like syserror etc.
>
> I only tested an application without pthreads. I noticed some differences
> in dealing with the static and dynamic-linked executables in glibc and
> uclibc particularly in pthread_minimal setup.  If the porting work is on, I
> would be happy to contribute for the same.

The uclibc-nptl branch is incomplete, and doesn't really work.
We (CodeSourcery) have been working on an Arm uClibc NPTL port, based on the 
uclibc-nptl branch.
We expect to be submitting these changes Real Soon Now, we're just finishing 
merging everythig to uclibc trunk and retesting.

Paul