[vlc-devel] Re: VLC threads with linux/sched.h

[Sigmund Augdal]

My first suggestion is to try again with recent videolan code. 0.6.2 is
almost a year old, and much have changed since then. Next suggestion is to
check if vlc support any threading library that your platform support (like
Pth or something). If all this fails, do your modifications and send a patch
against up to date svn sources. If it looks good we will accept it. (Vlc do
want to be the most portable dude afterall)

Sigmund

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:22:42PM -0800, Daniel Meyer wrote:
> All,
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>            I have a platform with an ARM940T running a less than 
> current version of uClinux.  I'd like to run VideoLan on it, but I have 
> no pthread support for this processor in uClibc.  In looking at newer 
> versions of uClibc I see that pthread support is enabled for certain 
> processors, but nothing even similar to mine.  When I reviewed the 
> videolan code (0.6.2) I thought that it would be fairly simple to modify 
> it to use kernel threads (just to stream MPEG4).  It seems that most of 
> the modifications would be in threads.c and that they would be almost 
> trivial to add.
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>            So, here are my questions:
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> 1.      Is there a better solution to this problem that I have missed?  
> Perhaps I am inventing a wheel that someone else has already invented?
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> 2.      Would the videolan group be interested in these modifications?  
> I'm currently assuming that I'd need to make my modifications and submit 
> the patches based on TOT.  I would be happy to give back any changes 
> that I make.
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> Dan Meyer
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