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Re: Ping: ILP32 on aarch64 patches
- From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at caviumnetworks dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz at port70 dot net>, <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:19:50 -0800
- Subject: Re: Ping: ILP32 on aarch64 patches
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I thought I had included Marcus on the email but it looks like I did
not. Adding him now.
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@caviumnetworks.com
On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 23:07 +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Steve Ellcey <sellcey@caviumnetworks.com> [2016-12-28 10:17:50
> -0800]:
> >
> > I would still like to check in ILP32 support for aarch64 before the
> > code freeze deadline. I haven't gotten any objections to the last
> > two patches that I submitted:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00744.html
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00778.html
> >
> > Can I check these in? Cc'ing the aarch64 machine maintainer and
> > the
> > release manager.
> the aarch64 maintainer is Marcus Shawcroft
>
> these patches contain kernel abi details which should
> ideally be tested and acked by linux devs as described in
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/5/333
>
> so only merge after both glibc and linux are ok with the abi.
> (i think glibc is ok with the abi, but the linux maintainers
> haven't finished review and testing yet.)