[Buildroot] Upgrading from Buildroot 0.10 to 2009.08 (ARM)

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Pihl <jpihl at nevion.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Yes, NTPL support in uclibc is still very much work in progress.

 Joachim> Just before I left work yesterday, I discovered that the uclibc
 Joachim> .config  (inherited from previous project) had "use linuxthreads" set,
 Joachim> while  buildroot had NPTL set. The mismatch here could be what we are
 Joachim> looking for?

No, buildroot rewrites that part of the uclibc config (see
toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk)

 Joachim> I would much prefer NPTL if it works, since our applications
 Joachim> are heavily multithreaded (for architecture clarity reasons,
 Joachim> among other things), and I suspect that some of the
 Joachim> performance issues we have could be caused by context
 Joachim> switch/scheduling latency.

You should probably check on the uclibc list, but there's afaik no NPTL
support for any architecture in any released uclibc versions.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard