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]

Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:41:37 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic syscall ABI support

On 03/28/2013 06:42:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 28 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 10:40 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thursday 28 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> > > > We will working on generic ABI for kernel and Glibc. This might  
> take
> > > > some times.
> > >
> > > Ok. Don't let that hold you up from submitting the kernel patches
> > > for review though.
> >
> > Do you mean we can submit the patches for review before we got the
> > generic ABI support?
> 
> I mean you can send the other patches for review already. Changing
> your implementtion to use the generic ABI will basically just mean
> not sending the patches tht implement your own ABI, so that's not
> hard. Of course until you also have a new glibc port, you won't be
> able to test that it actually works, but that is not essential for
> the reviewing stage.

You don't need a new glibc port, you need a new klibc or musl port.

   http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/07/08/1

Way less work than getting glibc working for your basic smoketest...

Rob--
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/