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SubjectRe: Generic syscall ABI support
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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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