X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?p=urcu.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=d39de22bdc6efcd9d343355df37772d02b20f4c8;hp=601703bdf6209af39c9e27e47a9d0c9d3e2d6b13;hb=a142df4e35dcf835439bf6714e49e95a2a68f7a6;hpb=d7c76f85442125bcfef40f58b1c6fc1bd5ce4ffd

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 601703b..d39de22 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Tested on:
   - FreeBSD 8.2/8.3/9.0/9.1/10.0 i386/amd64
   - Solaris 10/11 i386
   - Cygwin i386/amd64
-  - MacOSX amd64
+  - MacOS amd64/arm64
 
 Should also work on:
 
@@ -86,19 +86,13 @@ supported, with the following exceptions:
   - Alpha, ia64 and ARM architectures depend on GCC 4.x with atomic builtins
     support. For ARM this was introduced with GCC 4.4:
     http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html.
+  - Linux aarch64 depends on GCC 5.1 or better because prior versions
+    perform unsafe access to deallocated stack.
 
 Clang version 3.0 (based on LLVM 3.0) is supported.
 
-Building on MacOS X (Darwin) requires a work-around for processor
-detection:
-
-  - 32-bit:
-
-        ./configure --build=i686-apple-darwin11
-
-  - 64-bit:
-
-        ./configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin11
+Glibc >= 2.4 should work but the older version we test against is
+currently 2.17.
 
 For developers using the Git tree:
 
@@ -106,7 +100,7 @@ This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify
 portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to
 compile the git repository tree :
 
-  - GNU autotools (automake >=1.10, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50)
+  - GNU autotools (automake >=1.12, autoconf >=2.69)
     (make sure your system wide `automake` points to a recent version!)
   - GNU Libtool >=2.2
     (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
@@ -224,10 +218,11 @@ be overridden with `-DSIGRCU` by modifying `Makefile.build.inc`.
 
 The BP library flavor stands for "bulletproof". It is specifically
 designed to help tracing library to hook on applications without
-requiring to modify these applications. `urcu_bp_init()`,
-`urcu_bp_register_thread()` and `urcu_bp_unregister_thread()` all become
-nops. The state is dealt with by the library internally at the expense
-of read-side and write-side performance.
+requiring to modify these applications. `urcu_bp_init()`, and
+`urcu_bp_unregister_thread()` all become nops, whereas calling
+`urcu_bp_register_thread()` becomes optional. The state is dealt with by
+the library internally at the expense of read-side and write-side
+performance.
 
 
 ### Initialization
@@ -387,7 +382,7 @@ For always-on debugging self-checks:
 	./configure --enable-rcu-debug
 
 For fine grained enabling of debugging self-checks, build
-urserspace-rcu with DEBUG_RCU defined and compile dependent
+userspace-rcu with DEBUG_RCU defined and compile dependent
 applications with DEBUG_RCU defined when necessary.
 
 Warning: Enabling this feature result in a performance penalty.