On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Simon Burge wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:09:54AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
>
> > Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect that pthreads are broken on MIPS -- a week or two ago, someone else
> > > on port-sgimips noted that a simple pthread example program would kill the
> > > machine.
> > >
> > > Do any MIPS gurus have the time to look at this?  I'm not exactly qualified to
> > > go rooting around in what is probably going to be pmap code ...
> >
> > I'll try to look at this some more over the weekend.
>
> It looks like this problem has been around since November 2002(!).  I've
> fixed this with rev 1.102 of sys/arch/mips/mips/vm_machdep.c.  The fork
> pthread regression test now works.  If some folks can try more complex
> programs and report the results I'd be appreciative.
>
> Simon.
> --
> Simon Burge                                   <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
> NetBSD Development, Support and Service:   http://www.wasabisystems.com/
>

Cool!

Many thanks ... I'll first try with my own test program, then with a
complete MozillaFirebird installation.

This might take several days, since my Indigo isn't that fast killer
machine ;-)

I'll post my results to this list.

Thanks again
Florian