ports, please report on trunk status

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:22:47PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> People responsible for an architecture in the ports repository, and people
> who build and test on them, please report ASAP on their status.  The
> architectures I get reports on in the next few days are the ones that will
> be mentioned in the 2.4 release announcement as known to work.  If I don't
> hear from you, I'll assume that your port has bit-rotted and not been
> tested with the trunk code lately.
> 
> Please report: build known to work; Linux kernel versions believed
> compatible (modulo threads issues); status of NPTL, and specific Linux
> kernel versions (and hardware flavors, if relevant) on which NPTL works;
> verify that "make check-abi" results show no old symbols gone missing.

There are three relevant configurations for ARM:
  arm-none-linux-gnu / LinuxThreads
	Previously built and worked; will recheck.  No particular
	kernel requirements.
  arm-none-linux-gnu / NPTL
	Previously built and worked; will recheck.  Requires kernel
	2.6.15.
  arm-none-linux-gnueabi / NPTL
	Builds and works.  Requires kernel 2.6.16-rc1.

NPTL works on all hardware flavors with a suitable kernel version.

One issue for the release notes is that neither the current
LinuxThreads nor NPTL builds support SMP systems.  I'm only
currently planning to fix this for NPTL.  The necessary
kernel support is already in 2.6.15.

What's the deal with check-abi - how are we supposed to support it for
ports?  There is presently no ARM data.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery