From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>, "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 23:41:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364532097.18069.7@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303281142.47631.arnd@arndb.de> (from arnd@arndb.de on Thu Mar 28 06:42:47 2013)
On 03/28/2013 06:42:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 28 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 10:40 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thursday 28 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> > > > We will working on generic ABI for kernel and Glibc. This might
> take
> > > > some times.
> > >
> > > Ok. Don't let that hold you up from submitting the kernel patches
> > > for review though.
> >
> > Do you mean we can submit the patches for review before we got the
> > generic ABI support?
>
> I mean you can send the other patches for review already. Changing
> your implementtion to use the generic ABI will basically just mean
> not sending the patches tht implement your own ABI, so that's not
> hard. Of course until you also have a new glibc port, you won't be
> able to test that it actually works, but that is not essential for
> the reviewing stage.
You don't need a new glibc port, you need a new klibc or musl port.
http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/07/08/1
Way less work than getting glibc working for your basic smoketest...
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-29 4:41 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
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 [this message]
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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