Re: [PATCH 29/30] microblaze_mmu_v1: stat.h MMU update

Michal Simek
2009-04-30T14:51:44Z

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009, Michal Simek wrote:
>
>> 2. header cleanup -> some of them is pain because I have to recompile toolchain
>> that's should be a big deal but after recompilation kernel, user apps I am getting some problems.
>
> Yes, I understand that you have a circular dependency there, but fixing
> the ABI can only become harder with time, as more people start using
> the current kernel/toolchain combination.

Here is the one advantage that in mainline are only some drivers for Microblaze
and the rest is in petalinux. And people can use whole distribution.

>
>> 3. syscall cleanup -> we still have old libc and I can't simple remove ancient syscalls
>
> I had hoped that the way I set __ARCH_WANT_SYSCALL_* in the microblaze
> unistd.h would provide an easy way to migrate, because this still defines
> almost all traditional system calls (I haven't double-checked if some more
> are currently used on microblaze, but they would be easy to add).
> This means that as a first step, rebuilding the tool chain (as above) should
> be sufficient and not require source-level changes to libc. From that point,
> you can remove the remaining __ARCH_WANT_SYSCALL_* defintions one by one,
> and change the libc accordingly.
>
> I could also try building uclibc with the generic headers if I find the
> time. Which version do you use, just upstream or do you have a private
> libc tree with more changes?

That's good question but harder answer.
Glibc is any ancient 3-4 years non mainline version. There are some backports too.
I have some comments to it but it is better not to write them.

uclibc version is a little bit better. I had functional port half year mainline version
+ some private fixes. Currently John W is working on it to get working version with gcc 4.1.2.
He has some troubles with it but I hope he solve it soon.

We have troubles because none have taken care about. I hope that we are able to update
all the things and repair everything what wrong it.

Michal

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> Arnd <><

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