2.26 freeze in a little over a week

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Thursday 22 June 2017 11:18 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> We're not upstream in Linux yet, we're also in the process of submitting
> patches.  We've been through two rounds of review of the ABI on the Linux
> mailing list and there weren't any comments the second time.
> 
> We've committed to maintaining ABI stability with the first one to get released
> (which would be glibc if we can get into 2.26).

We usually wait for the kernel bits to go in before releasing a glibc
with the new ABI, but I'll defer to Carlos, Joseph, etc. on that.

Provided that is clear, I think it should be safe to continue reviewing
the patchset until about a week or two before the release date
(tentatively 1 Aug) and then take a call on whether it is ready or needs
to be pushed to 2.27.  Given that it does not interact with other
architecture code, their testing should not get affected.

Siddhesh