Re: Alpha and thread-local storage

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Joerg has worked on TLS.  He claims that the only thing missing
> for alpha is that inside cpu_switchto, the process unique
> register needs to be written.

If it's in the hwpcb, doesn't the PAL call that does the context switch already 
save/restore it for you?

I have an Alpha ARM here in my office for nostalgia's sake, so I'll try to take 
a look while I gobble my lunch.

-- thorpej