From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751735AbcFYX0S (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:26:18 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f51.google.com ([209.85.215.51]:33766 "EHLO mail-lf0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751675AbcFYX0R (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:26:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13f337ec-9ab8-9d7f-8984-0992ef73ddc7@redhat.com> References: <1466485631-3532-1-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> <1466485631-3532-2-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> <5769139E.7020805@arm.com> <20160623043542.GA13449@yury-N73SV> <13f337ec-9ab8-9d7f-8984-0992ef73ddc7@redhat.com> From: Andrew Pinski Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:26:01 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons. To: Florian Weimer Cc: Andreas Schwab , Yury Norov , Szabolcs Nagy , GNU C Library , LKML , nd , Arnd Bergmann , Catalin Marinas , Marcus Shawcroft , philb@gnu.org, David Miller , Maxim Kuvyrkov , "Joseph S. Myers" , Andrew Pinski Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 06/23/2016 09:56 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> Andrew Pinski writes: >> >>> So the question becomes do we care enough about the incompatibles >>> between AARCH32 and AARCH64 to fix this and go just worry about ILP32 >>> and LP64? >> >> >> Some armv8 chips do not implement all of armv7, so how relevant is >> aarch32 on aarch64? > > > I also do not see sufficient justification for this ABI break. Yury, Can you patch ILP32 glibc to use 64bit integer for utmp struct? > > Thanks, > Florian >