X-Git-Url: http://git.liburcu.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=33038af3ab12c0cc96aacbedf3cf6e76ea2fd5f7;hb=ae51baf267fc36ccc259f9287e2750c138ff80bc;hp=104ef2ab4eb481383b19c89dd7619b077d948680;hpb=d68d00f8d64d8d21b0d8d5ca89f649f77e5c8164;p=urcu.git diff --git a/README b/README index 104ef2a..33038af 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -25,11 +25,13 @@ BUILDING ARCHITECTURES SUPPORTED ----------------------- -Currently, x86 (i386, i486, i586, i686), x86 64-bit, PowerPC 32/64, S390, S390x, -ARM, Alpha, ia64 and Sparcv9 32/64 are supported. Only tested on Linux so -far, but should theoretically work on other operating systems. +Currently, Linux x86 (i386, i486, i586, i686), x86 64-bit, PowerPC 32/64, +S390, S390x, ARM, Alpha, ia64 and Sparcv9 32/64 are supported. Tested on +Linux, FreeBSD 8.2/9.0, and Cygwin. Should also work on: Android, NetBSD 5, +OpenBSD, Darwin (more testing needed before claiming support for these OS). -ARM depends on running a Linux kernel 2.6.15 or better, GCC 4.4 or better. +Linux ARM depends on running a Linux kernel 2.6.15 or better, GCC 4.4 or +better. The gcc compiler versions 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 are supported, with the following exceptions: @@ -60,6 +62,9 @@ If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap" script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the tree configuration. +Test scripts provided in the tests/ directory of the source tree depend +on "bash" and the "seq" program. + QUICK START GUIDE ----------------- @@ -172,7 +177,7 @@ Usage of urcu-call-rcu grace periods. A number of additional functions are provided to manage the helper threads used by call_rcu(), but reasonable defaults are used if these additional functions are not invoked. - See API.txt for more details. + See rcu-api.txt in userspace-rcu documentation for more details. Being careful with signals