NPTL for powerpc

[Carmelo AMOROSO]

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.
>
No changes into the ld.so ? uhm... for sure you need to handle all new 
TLS related relocations into the dynamic-linker for your target.
Please, refer to a previous post of Steve Hill about the nptl port status.

- Carmelo

> 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.
>
> -- 
>      Regards,
>      Srinivasa Kanduru
>
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