From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:10:33 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] glibc: disable eglibc 2.18 for sparc In-Reply-To: <550C8979.9030803@zacarias.com.ar> References: <1426630860-2813-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20150320215022.7df3b2f1@free-electrons.com> <550C8979.9030803@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <20150320221033.13c88518@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Gustavo Zacarias, On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:56:25 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > > Applied, but shouldn't we simply deprecated eglibc ? The latest eglibc > > release was 2.19, and glibc has already made two releases (2.20 and > > 2.21) since then. > > Unfortunately eglibc 2.18 is the only (e)glibc that's good for powerpc > SPE at the moment (that does hard-float), so that would mean leaving > only uClibc for that scenario. Well if nobody cares about powerpc SPE in upstream glibc, using uClibc will be the only solution. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com