Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:45:50 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMP linux threads (was Re: StarOffice 5.0?) Message-ID: <19981229094550.C502@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <3688ED3B.92893515@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:54:51PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812281258370.24624-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <19981229093117.A15799@keltia.freenix.fr> <3688A46E.598E1AF9@scc.nl> <19981229115013.A16678@keltia.freenix.fr> <3688ED3B.92893515@scc.nl>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > > According to Marcel Moolenaar: > > > Do not enable linux thread compatibility. It doesn't work on SMP. Beside > > > that; I don't see why it shouldn't work... > > > > Well, I'm in a bit of a catch22 because I want to try StarOffice 5 so I > > _need_ the Linux threads... > > I don't think it would help you much to tell you what I would do in such a > situation, because that's all I could do at this time :-( > > Do you know if SMP support is planned in the near future? Linux threads emulation works by implementing linux_clone using FreeBSD rfork. Currently, rfork, with the flags required for kernel threading, is disabled. It's my understanding that more work needs to be done on the SMP kernel before rfork can safely be enabled. I also understand that Luoqi Chen is working on this. He has posted patches at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi . I'm not running SMP at the moment, so I don't know how these patches would interact with the linux threads patches. -- Richard Seamman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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