Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with threads in Scratchbox with Qemu for ARM

[Vincent Palatin]

On Friday 02 February 2007 16:11, Stephane Epardaud wrote:
> Vincent Palatin wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of known problems under Qemu for ARM and pthreads ?
> >
> > Yes, it is known ... last occurence in the mailing list archive  is :
>
> Thanks, I guess I failed to find the exact posts mentioning the reasons.
> Any idea if this area will improve in the near future ? Or if there is a
> good reason why it will not improve ?

I think some useful information on this topic are in the thread "[PATCH]ish 
NPTL support." on qemu-devel list.

The thread starts at this message :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-12/msg00079.html
the following message gives interesting ideas :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-12/msg00208.html
( portability issue on host without modern NPTL)

Another big issue is that dynamic translator is not thread safe, see Fabrice 
post :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-12/msg00163.html

-- 
Vincent