I am looking over the original lwp source and the Linux threads FAQ as 
this is mostly new to me. Hopefully my optimism will make up for my lack 
of experience with this. Can you recommend any other source(s) of 
information that might be helpful?

>Since oldlwp already works on linux, I'd imagine that it just needs to have 
the 
>context switch code written for PowerPC, but I might be too optimistic.
>
>Good luck,
>Shafeeq
>