Deprecation of s390-32 in glibc
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Dec 2 12:07:58 GMT 2025
* Stefan Liebler:
> The next linux kernel 6.19 is about to remove support for s390-32
> compat layer.
> Until the code is removed, we of course can also remove
> "s390-linux-gnu" from build-many-glibcs.py script as newer
> kernel-versions don't have the proper syscall-numbers in unistd.h and
> "build-many-glibcs.py update-syscalls" would either fail or would even
> use the syscall numbers from s390-64.
Is the plan is to remove s390-linux-gnu from build-many-glibcs.py before
we switch the script to Linux 6.19?
But keep the s390-32 subdirectories in the glibc for the time being,
and delete them only at a later stage (presumably in 2027 or even later)?
Thanks,
Florian
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