Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] RISC-V glibc port for the 32 bit

[Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at sifive dot com>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:02:07 PDT (-0700), dj@redhat.com wrote:
> > This patch set contains the glibc port for the 32 bit RISC-V.
>
> FYI I finished reviewing this patch set - only for technical errors,
> since I'm new to port reviews - and didn't find anything beyond what
> I've already posted.
>
> I'll give it my +0.5 at least :-)

Ya, I agree -- I think the problems here are in being confident we can actually 
declare a stable RV32I Linux ABI in the next week, not this actual patch set.  
I think we should keep it out of tree for this release -- when we did the RV64I 
port is was too rushed but there we at least had the existence of a handful of 
Linux distros to point to.  If we do this right we can just make a backport of 
the RV32I stuff to 2.28, do an experimental distro port, and then have 
confidence that the 2.28 will actually work.

I think we should merge this soon after 2.28 branches as opposed to soon before 
2.28 branches.  As far as I know there's no distros chomping at the bit for 
RV32I anyway, so it's not like delaying this for a release cycle will cause too 
many headaches like it would have with the RV64I port.