Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757939AbaDWTX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:23:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43167 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756122AbaDWTX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:23:56 -0400 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <1397824031-4892-1-git-send-email-lftan@altera.com> <5354AD36.5090809@zytor.com> <16597012.pEkDc99HDN@wuerfel> ,<5357FF8E.9010809@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] nios2 Linux kernel port From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:21:22 -0700 To: "Pinski, Andrew" , Chung-Lin Tang CC: Ley Foon Tan , Arnd Bergmann , Linux-Arch , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "Catalin.Marinas@arm.com" , Andrew Pinski Message-ID: <5b7c8d5a-48b0-416f-ae6f-e0f9caa73b0d@email.android.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I think Linuxs said we should just fix POSIX on that front. On April 23, 2014 11:15:34 AM PDT, "Pinski, Andrew" wrote: > > >> On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:59 AM, "Chung-Lin Tang" > wrote: >> >>> On 2014/4/22 07:20 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann >wrote: >>>>> On Tuesday 22 April 2014 18:37:11 Ley Foon Tan wrote: >>>>>>> Hi Arnd and Peter Anvin, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Other than 64-bit time_t, clock_t and suseconds_t, can you >confirm >>>>>>> that we don't need to have 64 bit off_t? See detail in link >below. >>>>>>> I can submit the patches for 64-bit time changes >>>>>>> (include/asm-generic/posix_types.h and other archs) if everyone >is >>>>>>> agreed on this. >>>>> >>>>> Yes. >>> Okay, will doing that. >> >> I believe that arm64 ILP32 will also be affected. What is the status >of >> this configuration? Has the glibc/kernel ABI been finalized? > >Not yet. I am still working out the signal handling part. But we >already agreed on 64bit time_t, clock_t, and suseconds_t. And we >agreed to a 64bit offset_t too. > >On a related note suseconds in the timespec in posix is defined to be >long. So it would nice if the kernel ignores the upper 32bits so we >(glibc developers) can fix this for new targets including x32 and >arm64/ilp32. > >Thanks, >Andrew > >> >> Thanks, >> Chung-Lin >> -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting. -- 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/