Re: Generic syscall ABI support

[Rob Landley]

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--
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