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Re: [RFC PATCH] AARCH64/ILP32: introduce kernel time types
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <arnd at arndb dot de>, <vapier at gentoo dot org>, <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, <cmetcalf at tilera dot com>, <pinskia at gmail dot com>, <cmetcalf at mellanox dot com>, <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, <bamvor dot zhangjian at huawei dot com>, <catalin dot marinas at arm dot com>, <fweimer at redhat dot com>, <Prasun dot Kapoor at cavium dot com>, <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:27:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] AARCH64/ILP32: introduce kernel time types
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Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> writes:
> Utmp does not deal with kernel, that's true. But this is time types by
> nature, and native ABI keeps it synced with kernel. And ILP ABI has to
> be compatible with navive ABI, and so has to have it synced with
> kernel as well.
Since it is an on-disk format it needs to be handled specially, to avoid
the difficulties we have now on aarch64 to resurface for future ports.
Andreas.
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