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Add elf64-sparc TLS support.

David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net
Tue Apr 12 02:30:00 GMT 2005 
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:50:16 +0200
Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> wrote:

> > If you now diff elf32-sparc and elf64-sparc it is clear there is a lot
> > of code that can be commonized out, in a similar style to elfxx-mips.c
> 
> My wildest dream. :-)
 ...
> Ideally a Bugzilla PR should be opened to track this project, with the 
> SPARC-oriented folks in the CC list, so as to avoid duplicating work.

I already have a prototype I'm about to test, can I work on finishing
that tonight instead of creating the bugzilla nonsense? :-)

Nobody has bothered to do the sparc64 TLS stuff over the past few years,
and I finished the implementation in a few days, so I doubt anyone is
going to beat me to the 32/64 unification :-)
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