From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 17:22:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] jack2: Try better fix for NGREG problem In-Reply-To: <1479739795-31046-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <1479739795-31046-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20161217172237.5934f18f@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:49:55 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > After quite some time trying this and that we seem to have no > better solution than proposed by Thomas back in the day [1]. > > The solution in question is to check [during jack2 configuration] > if NGREG is exposed via ucontext.h and then use its value in > source code later on. This replaces long and still growing list > of architectures for which we explicitly escape usage of NGREG. > > Just for reference [2] is my attempt to fix in in the other > supposedly better way but with no luck because of the mess in > kernel's UAPI headers. > > [1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-May/161785.html > [2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-June/162461.html > > Still not sure if that works for every other architectures, so testing > and Acks from all interested parties are much appreciated. I have submitted an improved version of this: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/706714/ Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com