glibc 2.36 - Slushy freeze (3 weeks to release)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 07:33:12 GMT 2022
* WANG Xuerui:
> All is not lost, though, as the LoongArch "new world" (the fully
> community-driven openly developed ABI we're currently all working on,
> as opposed to the stopgap MIPS-esque ABI Loongson initially shipped in
> commercial products) is nowhere near popular, at least in the 1~1.5
> years to come; and we as distribution packages already educate the
> current "seed" users of new-world LoongArch to expect to update or
> re-install as often as possible to stay on the bleeding edge. So IMO
> fixing the linker and sunsetting R_LARCH_NONE support in glibc loader
> could be feasible after all, just it won't be a quick process.
Does it really make sense to add a glibc port now if we are going to
switch to a different ABI two or three releases from now? I don't think
so.
Thanks,
Florian
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