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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-08-07 23:56:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-08-07 23:56:17 +0200 |
| commit | 8b03b6363c7abb2339c39589b4cd5134d3d6d70c (patch) | |
| tree | 428ef2e66434249661311cfc4ab1f77d33d3f999 | |
| parent | a1aeddc112d4086d1873f4be17d623272c6f0eba (diff) | |
* libpthread: Update.
... with information from thread starting at
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diff --git a/libpthread.mdwn b/libpthread.mdwn index b31876b3..e74bbcb2 100644 --- a/libpthread.mdwn +++ b/libpthread.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -20,9 +20,23 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Porting libpthread to a specific architecture is non-trivial. -Our libpthread is currently used by / ported to the [[Hurd]] on [[GNU -Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]], some [[microkernel/L4]] variants, and -[[microkernel/Viengoos]]. +Our libpthread is currently used by/ported to the [[Hurd]] on [[GNU +Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]], and [[microkernel/Viengoos]]. + + +# History + +There has been a libpthread port for Hurd on L4 use (working directly on L4: no +further OS personality support required), which was dead and has been removed +in commit a0bca9895bca67591127680860077b2658830e96. This had been superseded +by a [[microkernel/Viengoos]] port, which has its own branches: +`master-viengoos` (an implementation of Viengoos that runs on L4) and its +successor, `master-viengoos-on-bare-metal` (runs directly on x86-64 (and it a +bit more advanced) and provides everything that `master-viengoos` does and +more). + +There has also been an incomplete and unmaintained PowerPC port which has been +removed in commit a5387f6a45d6b3f2b381d861f5c288b79da6204f. # Open Issues |