RISC-V glibc Port v1

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:13:45 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 06/14/2017 10:15 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>>> Do you have an idea of when there will be a 64-bit time_t clean release?  I'd
>>> be OK holding off on the 32-bit port for a bit, as we don't expect RV32I-based
>>> Linux-compatible systems to be popular.
>>
>> Sorry, no idea.  I'm Cc:ing Arnd, who believe worked on the kernel side
>> of things.
>
> Progress has been slow for a while, but there are still a number of interested
> parties, so it is continuing. I don't think it's important to wait
> here, as 64-bit
> time_t will be available for all architectures in glibc once the kernel support
> is done, the question is more about rebuilding all 32-bit binaries in a distro
> after the change.

OK, then I vote we don't wait for RV32 support.  While I don't think there's
going to be a flood of RV32 Linux-compatible hardware it'd be easier to port
userspace to both RV32 and RV64 at the same time, rather than doing it twice.

Does that sound OK?