Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:31:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/28] nios2 Linux kernel port |
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On 04/20/2014 10:23 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: >> On Friday 18 April 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Did the generic headers ever get updated to match Linus' guidance that >>> any new architecture ports should use a 64-bit time_t? >> >> No, unfortunately not. With my rule that every architecture that gets >> added needs to clean up asm-generic some more, to make it easier to add >> the next one, we should probably do for nios2. >> >> Arnd > > Can you give me the documentation on this new guidance and point me > any architecture have implemented this? > Thanks. >
We implemented it in the x32 ABI for x86. In generic code this is keyed by COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME, but in your case it isn't actually a matter of compat, so it should be easier.
See this thread including the discussion about time_t:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/26/415
-hpa
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