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Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, LKML <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, nd <nd at arm dot com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, Catalin Marinas <catalin dot marinas at arm dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>, philb at gnu dot org, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Andrew Pinski <apinski at cavium dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:26:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2016 09:56 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> So the question becomes do we care enough about the incompatibles
>>> between AARCH32 and AARCH64 to fix this and go just worry about ILP32
>>> and LP64?
>>
>>
>> Some armv8 chips do not implement all of armv7, so how relevant is
>> aarch32 on aarch64?
>
>
> I also do not see sufficient justification for this ABI break.
Yury,
Can you patch ILP32 glibc to use 64bit integer for utmp struct?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>