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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	klibc@zytor.com, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Merge strategy for klibc
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:24:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441F1D90.4080201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320201905.GI20746@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 
> I haven't yet looked at your code, but what actually needs to be done?
> Defining syscall macros?
> 
> I'd probably give it a try for VAX.
> 

Each architecture needs an assembly stub generator for most syscalls, a 
crt0.S, plus adjustments for which syscalls are "special" (as in special 
ed) on that architecture.  There are also a couple of header files which 
need per-architecture configuration information.  All in all it is 
usually a few hours worth of work, no more.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 19:54 Merge strategy for klibc H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-20 20:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-20 21:24   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-03-20 20:22 ` Al Viro
2006-03-20 21:17   ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-20 20:54 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-20 22:09 ` Roman Zippel
2006-03-22  0:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-22 14:47     ` Antonio Vargas
2006-03-22 16:11       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 12:39 ` Michael Tokarev

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