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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sergey Matyukevich <Sergey.Matyukevich@synopsys.com>,
	Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/glibc: add support for ARC700
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:54:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221116085427.3525bbcc@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221115235235.74897-2-abrodkin@synopsys.com>

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:52:34 +0100
Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:

> From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich@synopsys.com>
> 
> Even though ARC700 glibc port is very close to ARCv2 port, it is formally
> another ABI that requires appropriate maintenance. That includes running
> extensive glibc test-suite and fixing discovered issues and regressions.
> That effort was considered impractical due to ARCompact ISA reaching EOL.
> Besides ARC700 processors are usually found on very resource constrained
> devices that tend to use uClibc if they run Linux.
> 
> On the other hand adding ARC700 glibc support still can be useful for
> development and testing purposes. This commit adds two glibc patches
> that enable ARC700 support.

Hmm, this commit only adds one patch. Also, what is the upstream status
of this patch? In order to make sure we can easily update glibc, I'm
not too fan to have patches that are not upstream.

Thomas
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-15 23:52 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Enable (or rather fix) glibc for ARC700 Alexey Brodkin via buildroot
2022-11-15 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/glibc: add support " Alexey Brodkin via buildroot
2022-11-16  7:54   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2022-11-16 15:33     ` Alexey Brodkin via buildroot
2022-11-24 11:49       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2022-11-15 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] configs/snps_arc700_nsim_defconfig: add ARC700 target for nSIM Alexey Brodkin via buildroot
2023-08-06 20:48   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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