From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, oliver@neukum.org
Subject: Re: need for packed attribute
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:53:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112135302.GC5700@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060112134729.GB5700@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:47:29PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Due to lack of manpower on the Linux side (iow, more or less just me)
> this became the ABI of the early ARM Linux a.out toolchain. At that
> time, I did not consider this to be a problem - it wasn't a problem
> as far as the kernel was concerned.
Before someone takes that the wrong way - Richard Earnshaw worked on
porting binutils + gcc to the ARM architecture. I worked on converting
that toolchain to work for ARM Linux - supporting the a.out shared
libraries and other Linux specific features.
Changing the ABI was, and still is completely outside my level of
knowledge of gcc.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 12:27 need for packed attribute Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-12 13:47 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 13:53 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-01-12 16:30 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-12 16:46 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 17:22 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Vrabel
2006-01-12 17:34 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 17:20 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-12 17:26 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 17:36 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-12 19:35 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 18:15 Oliver Neukum
2006-01-06 18:38 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 18:32 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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