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
next prev parent 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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