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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] We need your ideas for the Google Summer of Code
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:56:08
Message-Id: 52FF642B.9010002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] We need your ideas for the Google Summer of Code by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 02/15/2014 07:53 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 02/15/2014 12:51 AM, heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
3 >> Hey Denis and Anthony,
4 >>
5 >> Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> writes:
6 >>
7 >>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Anthony G. Basile
8 >>> <blueness@g.o> wrote:
9 >>>> Gentoo + musl. See http://www.musl-libc.org/
10 >>> You may want to talk to Benda Xu (heroxbd). I think he used musl for
11 >>> his Gentoo on Android project.
12 >> musl was on my list last year, but glibc worked smoothly on Android. So
13 >> I lowered the priority of musl under the task of RAP integration into
14 >> gx86, the latter still being slowly carried on.
15 >>
16 >> Therefore I don't have much experience with musl.
17 >>
18 >> Cheers,
19 >> Benda
20 >>
21 > Hi Benda et al.
22 >
23 > More specifically where's what's been done:
24 >
25 > 1) I have a stage4 for amd64 and i686 and an overlay for patches
26 > against the tree's packages.
27 >
28 > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/hardened-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/musl
29 >
30 >
31 > 2) These stages need to be properly built using catalyst rather than
32 > using my ROOT=rootfs emerge -e @system technique which is scripted here
33 >
34 > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=tree;f=tools-musl
35 >
36 >
37 > 3) We should move libc.so from /usr/lib/libc.so to /lib/libc.so (minor
38 > but on the todo)
39 >
40 > 4) We should create stage3s for the following arches/abis:
41 >
42 > mips I with o32
43 > mipsel I with o32
44 > armv7a hardfloat eabi
45 >
46 > possibly also mips64r2 with n32 and n64
47 >
48 > Such a project would involve very eclectic skills: from hacking python
49 > in catalyst and patching build systems, to working with libc at a low
50 > level, c and assembly.
51 >
52
53 Oh I'm sorry, and I forgot to add 5 ... port the hardened-toolchain over.
54
55 --
56 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
57 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
58 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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