Re: latest current + latest ports + nvidia == no GL (pthread problem?)

From: Doug Barton <DougB_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:25:57 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> That is an ABI spec that Linux, Solaris, and others are now following.
> It mandates how %gs is supposed to be used for TLS.  We are trying to
> adhere to this spec and the goal is to be compliant with it by 5.3.
> When we support the TLS spec, the NVidia folks can rebuild their
> drivers/libraries without LDT allocations under FreeBSD.  This is
> what they (NVidia) want.

If all this is true, I shall eagerly anticipate the final results.
You'll have to excuse me if I'm not optimistic however.

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