Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Generic syscall ABI support | From | Ley Foon Tan <> | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:02 +0800 |
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On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 07:44 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Yes, absolutely. What a couple of the previous architectures have done is > to keep out of tree patches for their old ABI for a while, and to submit > only code that follows the generic ABI upstream. Usually it doesn't take > long for users to migrate to a new user space after that, but it gives > people a migration strategy. Normally you have other patches that are > required on top of the stuff that is already upstream while you are > getting everything merged, so this is not much different to a device > driver that needs to get rewritten to adapt to a new kernel subsystem. > > Arnd > Thanks for the reply. We will working on generic ABI for kernel and Glibc. This might take some times.
Regards LFTAN
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