[Buildroot] Custom C Libraries for RISC-V 32-bit Support

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Oct 3 12:44:22 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 14:41:45 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> The kernel way is definitely not the way to go. The kernel and U-Boot are 
> special because people tend to use per target source trees. I think that 
> something like what ARC is doing would be easier. A patch set might be 
> problematic because we'll need to forward port the patches whenever we bump 
> glibc version.

I agree with Baruch, I'd prefer to see something similar to what we do
for glibc on ARC, i.e the musl/glibc package automatically chose a
different repo/version when building for RISC-V 32 (glibc) or RISC-V
32/64 (musl).

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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