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Re: Add ppca2 to ports powerpc/dl-procinfo
- From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:48:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: Add ppca2 to ports powerpc/dl-procinfo
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1207011326040.17026@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <4FF12517.1060601@archlinux.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1207021128380.13316@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1207031702410.7079@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c
>> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.h
>>
>> I hadn't realised there were files in ports that would override
>> corresponding files in libc when the repositories are merged (that is, if
>> a configuration that previously didn't use ports now has the ports
>> repository visible). It looks like it will be necessary to add ppca2
>> support to the ports version to avoid any possible regressions - Ryan,
>> does this (untested) patch look OK for the ports subdirectory immediately
>> after the repository merge goes on master? (After the merge the powerpc
>> maintainers should probably move at least the CPU support bits for powerpc
>> in ports, if not the nofpu bits as well, directly into the libc sysdeps
>> structure, but that's certainly a matter for the maintainers.)
>
> I have applied this patch
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-07/msg00010.html> to hopefully
> reduce the risk of regressions for anyone newly getting powerpc ports
> files where they didn't before. Please do fix things up if this patch has
> in fact caused any problems of its own....
Thanks Joseph.
We'll fix any problems that arise.
Ryan