Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:41:37 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Generic syscall ABI support |
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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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