linux-kernel - Re: Generic syscall ABI support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1364459522.2308.6.camel@leyfoon-vm>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:02 +0800
From:	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic syscall ABI support

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 07:44 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Yes, absolutely. What a couple of the previous architectures have done is
> to keep out of tree patches for their old ABI for a while, and to submit
> only code that follows the generic ABI upstream. Usually it doesn't take
> long for users to migrate to a new user space after that, but it gives
> people a migration strategy. Normally you have other patches that are
> required on top of the stuff that is already upstream while you are
> getting everything merged, so this is not much different to a device
> driver that needs to get rewritten to adapt to a new kernel subsystem.
> 
> 	Arnd
> 
Thanks for the reply. 
We will working on generic ABI for kernel and Glibc. This might take
some times.

Regards
LFTAN

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/