From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
klibc@zytor.com, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Merge strategy for klibc
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:22:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320202224.GE27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441F0859.2010703@zytor.com>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:54:01AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Okay, as of this point, I think klibc is in quite good shape; my
> testing so far is showing that it can be used as a drop-in replacement
> for the kernel root-mounting code.
>
> That being said, there is guaranteed to be breakage, for two reasons:
>
> a. There are several architectures which don't have klibc ports yet.
> Since I don't have access to them, I can't really do them, either.
> It's usually a matter of an afternoon or less to port klibc to a
> new architecture, though, if you have a working development
> environment for it.
Which ones?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 19:54 Merge strategy for klibc H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-20 20:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-20 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-20 20:22 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-20 21:17 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-20 20:54 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-20 22:09 ` Roman Zippel
2006-03-22 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-22 14:47 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-03-22 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 12:39 ` Michael Tokarev
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