Re: glibc 2.30 - 6 days until ABI freeze.

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:05 AM Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:57 PM Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been pushing to get the RV32 port into glibc 2.30, but with 6
> > days left I'm not sure it can be done.
> ...
> > In saying that I would still like the patches "finalised" soon so we
> > can at least have a fork for testing and then have this merged as soon
> > as the 2.31 window opens.
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> I don't know if "finalised" is realistic in the time available either;
> you're tripping over some pretty deep problems and tangled up with the
> 64-bit time_t changes.  There are only a few people qualified to
> review your patches, and it's going to take time and thought.

Even more reason to skip the 2.30 release.

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> However, if you already have commit privileges (do you?) you are
> welcome to create a public testing branch right now, named <your
> sourceware userid>/rv32 or something like that.  It can be
> force-pushed as necessary.

I don't have commit privileges, for the time being I'm just using my
own git repo. How do I get commit privileges?

Alistair

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