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Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 10:50:39 +0100
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] nolibc: add support for s390
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 09:17:04AM +0100, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> >> The kernel compiles with z10 as minimum architecture, so
> >> i'm leaning towards enforcing the same arch for nolibc. What do you think?
> >
> > Sure, as long as this works for most users, that's likely fine.
> > Alternately, are there equivalent sequences of instructions that achieve
> > the same on older architectures, and would that be relevant ?
> 
> Well, it's only one instruction that needs to be changed - we could also
> use aghi to do the same thing. Maybe that's better.
> 
> Also i will add -m64 to the testing Makefile, it shouldn't hurt.
> 
> > One future improvement I'll need will be to store the envp value into a
> > global "environ" variable, and run over it to catch the pointer that
> > follows the NULL and save it into the "_auxv" variable. I've done it for
> > all other archs here already:
> >
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/nolibc.git/log/?h=20221227-nolibc-weak-4
> >
> > I'll give it a try once I'm able to build and test your code, and may
> > ask you for some help if I don't succeed in doing it. If you want to do
> > it yourself, please have a look at the last commits adding environ and
> > auxv to any arch of your choice, such as x86_64.
> 
> Ok, thanks for the Heads-Up. I'll take a look. I think i would send this
> as a separate Patch, so we get the initial support done first if that's ok.

Yes absolutely, that was also my intent. I have not yet submitted this
series.

Thanks!
Willy