From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5389 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: AArch64 merge back Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 08:53:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20140701065337.GB23102@port70.net> References: <004501cf94b6$9141c8c0$b3c55a40$@codeaurora.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404197640 857 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2014 06:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 06:54:00 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5394-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jul 01 08:53:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X1rww-0003j7-30 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3637 invoked by uid 550); 1 Jul 2014 06:53:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 3629 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2014 06:53:49 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004501cf94b6$9141c8c0$b3c55a40$@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5389 Archived-At: * Weiming Zhao [2014-06-30 15:56:45 -0700]: > I'm wondering if there is any plan to merge back the changes for AArch64 > from https://github.com/crxz0193/musl-aarch64 ? > > So we can stay on the main repository. do you plan to use musl on aarch64? the porting was stopped because aarch64 uses the new syscall set of linux which needed significant changes in musl (and without working essential syscalls it was not possible to test the port) now the new syscalls are supported so porting can continue, so somebody with an emulator or hardware can pick it up that repo probably wont be merged directly but a squashed version of the changes will be committed once most things work reliably this is on the roadmap, but somebody has to do the work (should not be hard with an emulator and docs) http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Roadmap there were plans to refactor arch/*/bits to reduce the redundancy there, but it was postponed because of build system issues. if or1k and aarch64 gets merged then maybe this item should be picked up again..