On 2020-12-17 17:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
It does make sense to require that a single kernel can work on all possible hardware. So if we remove sun4m/sun4d support, all that is left is LEON, and you likely wouldn't need to worry about other CPUs any more. However, there is still the question whether a single kernel needs to work on LEON both with and without CASA. Do you still care about Linux users on LEON cores that do not support CASA, or is widespread enough that you just make it unconditional for both SMP and non-SMP?
We are fine with unconditional CASA for both SMP and non-SMP for LEON.
I hope that you can make it to 5.10 then, as this contains the work I did for 64-bit time_t, which is required if you have users that want to run systems after 2038.
That is a good point! Thank you!
FWIW, glibc-2.31 does not have support for 64-bit time_t yet, but I know there was interest in adding sparc support to the musl libc, which does support 64-bit time_t.
Yes, we will have to follow the developments regarding 64-bit time_t in GLIBC as well. -- Andreas
