From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:57:00 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uclibc: get rid of ARC's uClibc fork In-Reply-To: <1445959005-23917-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <1445959005-23917-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20151027225700.754d4f9f@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 Alexey Brodkin, On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:16:45 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > For quite some time all ARC changes have been pushed upstream. > So both uClibc master branch and uClibc-ng have full ARC support > including the most recent changes. > > I.e. finally we have reached the point when there's no need in > Synopsys fork of uClibc on GitHub and it will soon be obsoleted and > removed at some pint of time. > > Now since vanilla uClibc hasn't seen any releases for many years we cannot > really use it for ARC. Fortunately there exists uClibc-ng and Waldemar > cuts releases regularly - that works perfectly fine for us. > > That patch removes all mentions of ARC's uClibc which in turn makes > uClibc-ng default libc for ARC. > > Cc: Waldemar Brodkorb > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Excellent, thanks for doing this! And thanks to Waldemar for bringing back some sanity to the uClibc world :) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com