Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753923Ab3C2EyJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:54:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34081 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751641Ab3C2EyH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:54:07 -0400 Message-ID: <51551E60.4070708@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:53:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: Arnd Bergmann , Ley Foon Tan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Generic syscall ABI support References: <1364532097.18069.7@driftwood> In-Reply-To: <1364532097.18069.7@driftwood> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 25 On 03/28/2013 09:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > 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... > Good point. Average time to port klibc to a new architecture is about four hours as long as the person porting knows the calling conventions and assembly language involved. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/