Re: [PATCH 00/28] nios2 Linux kernel port

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Apr 21 2014 - 01:32:35 EST


On 04/20/2014 10:23 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Friday 18 April 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Did the generic headers ever get updated to match Linus' guidance that
>>> any new architecture ports should use a 64-bit time_t?
>>
>> No, unfortunately not. With my rule that every architecture that gets
>> added needs to clean up asm-generic some more, to make it easier to add
>> the next one, we should probably do for nios2.
>>
>> Arnd
>
> Can you give me the documentation on this new guidance and point me
> any architecture have implemented this?
> Thanks.
>

We implemented it in the x32 ABI for x86. In generic code this is keyed
by COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME, but in your case it isn't actually a matter of
compat, so it should be easier.

See this thread including the discussion about time_t:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/26/415

-hpa

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