[haiku] Re: Haiku's SMP

  • From: "David McPaul" <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:56:23 +1100

On 2008-11-18, Nick <tonestone57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If someone can come up with a BeOS R5 libpthreads implementation then
> > I can port the 3ivx multithreaded encoder to BeOS
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > David
>
> Bernd, from yT, said they had a newer pthread library for Zeta - included in
> Zeta 1.5, 1.21 ( & 1.2? ).  You're not going to find anything for BeOS
> unless you do it yourself.

Do we know who did that work?

> Read this forum post for additional info:
> http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/does_haiku_core_development_have_a_pthreads_package_yet
>
> There is a link to the Zeta pthread library source which I posted there but
> it no longer seems to work.  Maybe you can contact website to gain access to
> it.  Also, you'll find a link to Haiku's pthread implementation but it gets
> included in libroot instead. ( maybe you can build it as pthread library? -
> this would be ideal but would have to be adapted for BeOS ).

I had a look at the Haiku pthreads stuff, BeOS R5 is missing a number
of pieces to easily port the code.

> Search for pthread:
> http://www.zeta-os.com/cms/custom/produkte/changelog15.txt
>
> Above link will show what Zeta's new pthread library added support for.

I am thinking I should put a bounty up for it.

-- 
Cheers
David

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