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Re: 2.26 freeze in a little over a week
- From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
- To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt dot com>, siddhesh at gotplt dot org
- Cc: nd at arm dot com, Andrew Waterman <andrew at sifive dot com>, Darius Rad <darius at bluespec dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, carlos at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:09:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: 2.26 freeze in a little over a week
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On 22/06/17 18:05, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:49:36 PDT (-0700), siddhesh@gotplt.org wrote:
>> PSA: The development freeze for 2.26 is due in a little over a week. 1
>> July is a Saturday, so we have until next week to finish major changes.
>>
>> I have a memcpy implementation for the Qualcomm falkor chip that I hope
>> to post by tomorrow. Are there any major changes that need attention
>> but are not getting it?
>
> Thanks for the heads up. We're in the process of submitting our RISC-V port,
> do you allow new architecture ports during the freeze? IIRC GCC allowed us to
> submit our port during Stage 4 as it didn't touch any other port's code, and it
> was mentioned that this might be the case for glibc as well.
>
is the linux kernel abi finalized (upstream in a released version of linux)?
if not then there is a possibility of divergence between kernel and userspace abi.