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Message-ID: <20121128235304.GS20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:53:04 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 0.9.8 released
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
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