Update notes on why we actually want to disable thread stress tests.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t b/dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
index 8573f1abd8..e126a21379 100644
--- a/dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
+++ b/dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@ BEGIN {
         print("1..0 # SKIP Broken under HP-UX 10.20\n");
         exit(0);
     }
+
+    # http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2011-June/002285.html
+    # There _is_ TLS support on m68k, but this stress test is overwhelming
+    # for the hardware
     if ($^O eq 'linux' && $Config{archname} =~ /^m68k/) {
-        print("1..0 # Skip: no TLS on m68k yet <http://bugs.debian.org/495826>\n");
+        print("1..0 # Skip: m68k doesn't have enough oomph for these stress tests\n");
         exit(0);
     }
 }