From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754347Ab2ILLyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:54:38 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:63657 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219Ab2ILLyh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:54:37 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/31] AArch64 Linux kernel port Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:54:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.5.0; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Catalin Marinas , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1347035226-18649-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <504E4C0E.9030402@jonmasters.org> In-Reply-To: <504E4C0E.9030402@jonmasters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <201209121154.20474.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:iPbhfuc7ikVEH6u1p5+pjJggwX7fyMJgxE59Xede6y/ wHX0MHCRi728/7kEQKA1cecSZ+w84s/qnaGWbTxjbYEGRRPjqP DfnP01kvc9KIRwwKPulJKcDq45uGfk6yQ9GQvoNzWnlydws9rm uuaMkc2P81zszXyASfds1842TM03yupWbwGZWGH/gr1oXQHA7G 40vZVTMkYssyRDcnjAxrzGTnpa52iP/Z+HFFLiW1IOhgnnoOD1 Bl8jmyvlhhYAAeMoy4tJNotHzq4tk31FXvISrxAq39bj6NTCnU a58RN4PM0u6pY0X/gKIe/ZxFYIVw8Z+3htuXn0dTk7krx23yoq x/s/hMm31MOLWEFvpu+A= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 10 September 2012, Jon Masters wrote: > On 09/07/2012 12:26 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > This is the 3rd version of patches implementing Linux kernel support for > > the 64-bit ARM architecture. > > > > ...but the main goal was to freeze the user ABI. > > Is the consensus now that we're good from an ABI viewpoint? > >>From my point of view, no more changes are needed. I would not give any guarantees until we have a first kernel release including this code, but I think we can agree that we would consult you about ABI changes if they seem necessary before then. If you start (re)building the Fedora packages based on these kernel headers, the changes are pretty good that this will keep working. Arnd