Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic

[wireless]

On 04/06/11 10:52, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Also... an important couple of features:
>
> TLS works on certain hardware (e.g. with hardware supported tls, like
> armv7a), but not on all architectures, like in GNU [1], [2]. It's
> probably better to blanket-disable this for now via a portage profile
> variable.

TLS is very cool....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
;-)


> SMP does not currently work OOTB. There are some patches floating
> around[3], with issues that mainly lie outside of bionic, but I the
> 'official' SMP code will be available whenever Honeycomb is
> released[4] ... which is of course whenever Google decides to do
> release Honeycomb.
>
> C
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.1/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local
> [2] http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf
> [3] http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/de20f1b10703acc2
> [4] http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html#multicore

Thanks for all the wonderful links and information.
I'm too busy. You build some of this on a PANDA
board, drop me a line and I'll burn images and test
for you. ebtables and iptables in the image, would be
keen! My Panda is loanly just sitting in a box....
:-(


James