ARM: enable interpreter, add locks code
Andrew Haley
aph-gcc@littlepinkcloud.COM
Thu Jul 12 13:37:00 GMT 2007
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:08:23PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Quite. There are many things that we can worry about, but I'm quite
> > happy to wait for this to be fixed by the LinuxThreads people.
>
> It won't be, unfortunately. LinuxThreads is dead and will not be
> fixed. NPTL, the replacement, gets to assume a sufficiently new
> kernel version that it can call into the kernel for atomic operations
> (there are helper functions at a magic location since around 2.6.15).
OK, so we should autoconf for the kernel version? Something else?
I'm testing on 2.6.18-4.
Andrew.
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