Good news: KSE on ia64 is starting to work

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:33:14PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> > > Am I right that this is currently the only way libkse can work and
> > > that I have to wait until the patches that are floating around get
> > > committed?
> > 
> > I'm almost ready to commit them.  Trying to figure out why
> > sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE, foo) doesn't work on sledge (amd64).
> 
> Ok. I wont commit the per-KSE hacks then.
> 
> > See the ia64 part of the above patch.  Since getcontext()
> > and setcontext() are not meant to be used by applications
> > to switch between contexts in different threads, they
> > shouldn't need to save and restore TP.  But, the MD parts
> > of libpthread, _thread_enter_uts() and _thread_switch(),
> > do need to handle this.  I _think_ I took care of this
> > for ia64, but you might want to take a close look at the
> > patch to make sure.
> 
> The patch does not contain ia64 (yet), but libpthread.ia64.diffs
> does indeed have the code that deals with TP.

Oh shoot.  Terribly sorry :-(  I didn't change the link
to point to the latest patch file.  If you grab it again,
it should be updated.

> Thanks, I now know what to commit and what not. I'll be testing
> the patch after committing...

Thanks.

-- 
Dan Eischen