ARM NPTL support for uClibc

[Khem Raj]

Erik Andersen said the following on 08/18/2006 01:32 PM:
> 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.
>   
yeah I agree with this. Probably the best approach would be that merge 
happens on the nptl-branch and the branch gets merged into
trunk immediately once the NPTL is working well on branch. Steve is 
reviving the branch and syncing a lot of stuff from trunk into branch
which will help later when merging the work on to head. I have already 
ported Jim's patch to nptl-branch as of yesterday. It compiles at least 
for ARM locally.

> <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.
>   
That is the way to go.
>  -Erik
>
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