From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 0.9.8 released
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:53:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121128235304.GS20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354138556.2190.6@driftwood>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:35:56PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 07:05:07 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >This is fairly comparable to the mips1 issue and the need for ll/sc
> >emulation by the kernel. i386 is just fundamentally lacking in a way
> >that makes multi-tasking/multi-threading not workable with the POSIX
> >apis for it. The kernel should be emulating 'lock cmpxchg', like it
> >does ll/sc for mips1, and if it did, 386 would work fine. But
> >apparently nobody cares anyway..
>
> Actually this just got removed literally today:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/28/445
*sigh* that's frustrating.
> If I recall, there was a longish discussion that boiled down to
> nobody could find actual 386 hardware still in use to test any of
> this with.
It would be easy to test on qemu. I even have a 386 board I could set
back up and test...
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 2:49 Rich Felker
2012-11-27 11:31 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-11-27 14:46 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-28 2:43 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-11-28 3:39 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-28 4:51 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-11-28 13:05 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-28 21:35 ` Rob Landley
2012-11-28 23:53 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-11-29 0:52 ` Rob Landley
2012-12-03 13:11 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-03 17:30 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-03 22:03 ` Szabolcs Nagy
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