[uClinux-dev] Do I need to port uClibc ?

John Williams jwilliams at itee.uq.edu.au
Mon Jan 1 21:26:52 EST 2007


Hi James,

James Yu wrote:

> I am working on porting uClinux (yet just the kernel part) for a brand
> new hardware architecture.
> Do I need to port uClibc as well ? or uClibc is general enough to fit
> any architectures ?
> 

There's some arch dependent uClibc stuff down in

uClibc/sysdeps/linux/<arch>

fork/vfork, syscall, c++ init/fini, and longjmp/setjmp, plus a few other
bits and pieces.

There's also some arch stuff in libpthread - mostly atomic/mutex ops.

Regards,

John





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