Re: [PATCH 10/16] lib: General Linux RV64 syscall support.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

W. J. van der Laan writes:

> On Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 at 1:31 PM, Danny Milosavljevic 
> <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>
>> > Same for the other syscalls I've replaced in this patch. Doing it in some 
>> > way is a necessity, unfortunately.
>>
>> Which kernel version introduced openat() on architectures we want to use? 
>> (x86, x86_64, arm, risc-v)
>
> According to the manual page: "openat() was added to Linux in kernel
> 2.6.16". So I guess that is old enough. For other replaced syscalls
> the introduction may be much more recent though! (RISC-V is one of the
> newest architectures in the kernel, after all, so it provides a really
> recent snapshot.)

That seems really old enough for the moment.

> I think the decision what kernel to set as minimum depends on whether
> it is valuable to be able to bootstrap on really old kernels on
> i386. I have no insight into this.

Yes, that's an interesting perspective.  However, if we can add RISC-V
support without adding code duplication or extra parameterization, I
think that's a real benefit.  We can always add support for older
Linux kernels when the need arises.

I just chose the simple variants at the time because they were familiar
to me.

Greetings,
Janneke

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