From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 09:35:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6140416A4CE; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:35:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E016843D1D; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:35:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBOHZmV9091427; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBOHZl4U091426; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:35:47 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20031224173546.GA91077@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3FE93499.7060307@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FE93499.7060307@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans for 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:35:57 -0000 On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:39:21PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > The things that need to happen in the next 4 weeks include: > > - Import a newer binutils package so that TLS work can start. David > O'brien is the traditional toolchain person. It would be good to get > a few other people involved with this so that David doesn't keep > burning out. As I've mentioned several times to RE, TLS support depends on non-toolchain MD bits. A binutils import is not held up due to me being "burned out". There is no reason to create assembler and linker churn right now until you have a plan for the implementation of the MD bits. Please get commitments for every platform we have and a development schedule and you'll get a binutils import. > - Figure out the plan for a newer GDB that supports all of our Tier-1 > platforms and can be extended to support KSE debugging. A lot of > people have discussed this and I welcome more open discussion on it. I just about have most of our local hacks ported to GDB 6.0. However, there is the huge need for a KSE knowledgeable person to design and implement debugging support for KSE threading.