This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: 2.26 freeze in a little over a week
On 06/23/2017 09:30 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2017 06:43 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> i'd like
>> Re: [PATCH v2] Single threaded stdio optimization
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-06/msg01072.html
>> to be reviewed and if it's not possible in this release
>> then do the aarch64 specific lll hack.
>
> Ack.
>
>> in the event of v4.12 kernel getting released i'd like to
>> add the new aarch64 hwcap bits.
>
> Given that 4.12 is slated for the first week of July and the new hwcap
> bits are fairly stable, I'd say just push these in to stay in sync with
> the kernel.
Please push them *after* the official kernel comes out with the bits.
We are not in a rush and adding the new hwcap bits can be done up to the
last minute before release on August 1st.
While I understand that most of this stuff is stable, it's good practice
to just wait for the kernel update. It also sets a good precedent that we
followed our own rules all the time :-)
--
Cheers,
Carlos.