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Message-ID: <56DB6095.4060204@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:41:25 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@...eBSD.org> To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Google Summer of Code 2016 Hello Rich; On 03/05/16 16:25, Rich Felker wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 03:11:28PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> Hello; >> >> Just thought I'd point this out in case there are students looking >> for a summer project (paid by Google): >> >> In FreeBSD we are always open to alternatives. For this GSoC we >> would consider someone willing to work on a musl port. >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Port_musl_libc >> >> For such a port you obviously have to have love for the C language >> and specific skills (version control, knowledge of the build system, >> UNIX/syscall knowledge), but I think it may very well be a fun >> project for the right person. >> >> We generally ask for very detailed proposals and it certainly >> would help if you get to try FreeBSD before considering a >> proposal, The process is competitive so we are interested >> in your background. >> >> We are aware musl is centered around linux but just as someone >> managed to port glibc to FreeBSD we think it should be possible >> to make a port clean port of musl. This project would only make >> sense if the code is upstreamed, so at some stage we would also >> appreciate support from musl developers. >> >> For applying you should follow the standard procedure with Google. >> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/ > > Nice! > > From our side (musl), the biggest obstacle when people have looked at > doing such a port in the past seems to be missing syscalls, especially > futex and related functionality. For that reason, up til now, > FreeBSD's Linux syscall layer has seemed more functional, and a better > basis for musl-on-FreeBSD, than the native syscall layer. I think a > viable proposal needs a solution to this problem on the kernel side -- > perhaps exposing some of these syscalls that are Linux-emulation-only > now in the native API? > First of all, great to hear there is interest on the musl side too. I think the biggest precedent of porting linux-oriented C libraries came from Debian's kFreeBSD. We accomodated a little by for them by defining __FreeBSD_kernel__ in sys/param.h. While using the optional linux-abi futex in FreeBSD could be an option, it is not really the cleanest option. The Debian guys did a port of NPTL using regular pthreads: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.bsd/11702 I am certain this will require more research but it would be useful for other ports as well. Pedro.
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