Re: Userland headers available

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 13:49:13 EST


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:07:17PM +0100, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> At http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/glibc-kernel-headers/ there are userland
> headers for linux, derived from 2.6 kernels with lots of 2.4 compatibility
> fixes. CVS repo can be found at cvs.pld-linux.org/glibc-kernel-headers (anon
> and webcvs). These headers are currently used to compile a whole linux distro
> (ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/ac) for x86, sparc, amd64, alpha and ppc, but
> general fixes are applied to all archs since we never know if a new arch
> won't be added (amd64 was added just a month-two ago). #1 feature is that
> they are and will be maintained (currently three people are working on them)
> and bugs are mostly fixed instantly. Enjoy.

I've done precisely the same thing for Debian - if I find the time,
I'll compare...

I would really like to come up with an approach to maintain this
interface definition in the kernel source. I'm still trying to think
of a way to do it without breaking compatibility or kernel builds.

--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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