2.26 freeze in a little over a week

[Szabolcs Nagy]

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.