ARM NPTL support for uClibc

[Erik Andersen]

On Sat Aug 12, 2006 at 05:07:05PM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> As I plainly stated last week, no NPTL will be allowed into the mainline,
> only on the branch. The decision still stands.

I'm not sure how you came to this decision.  I dont really making
such a call, and despite my comparitive inactivity of late, I am
still the maintainer of uClibc.  As dictator-for-life, I get to
make this particular call.

My understanding was that we would begin efforts towards merging
your mips NPTL into trunk as soon as you had finished your OLS
presention (which is now done).  I can not see any particular
reason to adamantly refuse merging any NPTL into trunk, and I can
see many good reasons why getting such support into trunk sooner
rather that later would be good.  The longer we wait, the more
pointless effort will be needed to keep both the ARM and the MIPS
nptl trees in sync with trunk.  We want NPTL in trunk, so we
might as well bite the bullet and pay the price now.

<Official decree>
We need to sort out the discrepancies between the ARM and MIPS
nptl branches, and get the resulting grand unified patch
supporting NPTL on both arches (with the foundational bits in
place to later add support for other arches, and after ensuring
that we still have linuxthreads for older 2.4 kernels) checked
into trunk.

 -Erik

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