[RFC PATCH] AARCH64/ILP32: introduce kernel time types

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Jun 28 10:27:00 GMT 2016


Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> writes:

> Utmp does not deal with kernel, that's true. But this is time types by
> nature, and native ABI keeps it synced with kernel. And ILP ABI has to
> be compatible with navive ABI, and so has to have it synced with
> kernel as well.

Since it is an on-disk format it needs to be handled specially, to avoid
the difficulties we have now on aarch64 to resurface for future ports.

Andreas.

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