glibc 2.29 - Winter is coming...

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 1/8/19 8:33 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 02/01/2019 10:28, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> Status of Release blockers:
>>
>> I have reviewed all original release blockers, including a couple of additional ones that got added later but I couldn't get to all of them. As
>> of now, the pending blockers do not look suitable for inclusion at this stage and so will be deferred to 2.30 development.
> 
> i'd like to commit some patches that only affect aarch64
> (and only particular uarches there):
> 
> memchr and memset for AmpereComputing emag (approved before freeze):
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00626.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00628.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00820.html

AmpereComputing is not yet listed in the FSF copyright files,
and I don't have confirmation from the FSF (it has been asked).

> ifunc for ares (does not add new implementation):
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00754.html
> 
> these seem safer to me to commit now than to backport them
> later and should not interfere with the glibc release process. 

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Cheers,
Carlos.