Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> On Jun 5, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 02:47:53PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
>>> IIRC the arm ABI defines standard uses for a lot of the registers, one must 
>>> be for
>>> thread data - so could be used in the kernel for curlwp.
>> 
>> Only for newer ARM generations. The old one have no native TLS register.
> 
> That's ARMv5e and newer, right?

No, armv6 and latter.  And not all armv6 have them.  There is code in place to 
use them but none of the arm11s i have ever supported them.  I suppose armv7 
(cortex) should have them.