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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 2009 21:57:11 +0200."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:28:29 -0700
Message-Id: <20090513202830.2AE4A5B24@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P on Lemote Yeeloong
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:57:11 +0200 lucio@proxima.alt.za  wrote:
> I thought things were running too smoothly.  I got P9P to compile on
> the Lemote Yeeloong with only very frequent ocurrences of warnings
> (they seem like compile-time warnings) to the effect that each of
> getcontext, makecontext and swapcontext "is not implemented and will
> always fail".
>
> Now, the Yeeloong is a notebook based on a MIPS cpu and endowed with
> Open Architecture, Open BIOS (called PMON) and Linux (Debian).  The
> man page for getcontext() seems to suggest that it exists, but
> executing, say, acme fails with:
>
> "threadalloc getcontext: function not implemented"
>
> So close to getting there, but I must be missing something.  Does
> anyone know what?
>
> ++L
>

See $PLAN9/include/u.h. You may need to add something to the
/* OS-specific crap */ section. Adding

#include <pthread.h>
#define PLAN9PORT_USING_PTHREAD 1

for your version of linux just might do the trick.