Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:47:55 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-glibc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Userland headers available
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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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