From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2234 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: roadmap for 0.9.8 ? Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:37:27 +0100 Message-ID: <5091B637.3060107@barfooze.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351726674 28495 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2012 23:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2235-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Nov 01 00:38:04 2012 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 1TThrH-0002Jf-LU for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:38:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15638 invoked by uid 550); 31 Oct 2012 23:37:54 -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 15628 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2012 23:37:54 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2234 Archived-At: i was thinking about what will go into the next release... open positions that were originally intended to go into 0.9.7 are, as taken from the latest "pending for release" mails: - dl_iterate_phdr() - looks as if this is currently cooking, and possibly an important bit to improve libgcc support, - explicit mips soft-float abi support (mainly for use with broken openwrt kernels) , - wordexp ? - subarchs in build system (e.g. mips-softfloat, arm-hardfloat, etc.), - nsz' suggested math improvements ? additionally, i think it'd make sense to add stubs for the missing optional schedule functions (as most of them are already there), that way we could build some exotic programs like "fluidsynth" without patches, and further increase the pkgsrc success rate: posix_spawnattr_setschedparam posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy posix_spawnattr_getschedparam posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy pthread_attr_getinheritsched pthread_attr_getschedpolicy pthread_attr_setinheritsched pthread_attr_setschedpolicy pthread_getschedparam pthread_mutex_getprioceiling pthread_mutex_setprioceiling pthread_mutexattr_getprioceiling pthread_mutexattr_getprotocol pthread_mutexattr_setprioceiling pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol pthread_setschedparam pthread_setschedprio pthread_getschedprio (i hope that's complete) - ppc port ? is there something else i missed, and what are your plans ? besides of musl itself, i think it would be a nice achievement if we could get the microblaze toolchain patches integrated in the upstream repos (or at least patches against current gcc/binutils trees), so that we distro-builders dont need to special-case for microblaze.