On 03/27/2013 08:09 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote: > Need advise regarding the generic syscall ABI support. > > We are planning to upstream our Nios II kernel (arch/nios2) to mainline. > But it doesn't support generic syscall ABI yet (It requires an updated > Glibc port as well). > > The question is, is it a requirement for new arch to support generic > syscall ABI when upstreaming? Can we upstream a non-generic syscall ABI > first and migrate to generic syscall ABI in future? > Thanks. > > Regards > LFTAN > That would be extremely difficult. In general, you should use the generic ABI for a new port unless you have *very* strong and convincing reasons not to. Given how long the Nios2 port has been in upstreaming (unfortunate, I like to play with FPGAs ;) it seems worthwhile to adjust it before pushing it. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
