From: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic syscall ABI support
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364459522.2308.6.camel@leyfoon-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303280744.27477.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 07:44 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Yes, absolutely. What a couple of the previous architectures have done is
> to keep out of tree patches for their old ABI for a while, and to submit
> only code that follows the generic ABI upstream. Usually it doesn't take
> long for users to migrate to a new user space after that, but it gives
> people a migration strategy. Normally you have other patches that are
> required on top of the stuff that is already upstream while you are
> getting everything merged, so this is not much different to a device
> driver that needs to get rewritten to adapt to a new kernel subsystem.
>
> Arnd
>
Thanks for the reply.
We will working on generic ABI for kernel and Glibc. This might take
some times.
Regards
LFTAN
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 3:09 Generic syscall ABI support Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-28 5:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-28 7:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-28 8:32 ` Ley Foon Tan [this message]
2013-03-28 10:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-28 11:30 ` Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-28 11:30 ` Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-28 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-29 4:41 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-29 4:41 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-29 4:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-29 9:49 ` Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-29 10:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
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