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Message-ID: <20160306223327.GW9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:33:28 -0500 From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Cc: lowrisc-dev@...ts.lowrisc.org Subject: Re: musl risc-v port & gsoc - resources & ideas On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:58:12PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > Since a port of musl to a new arch does not actually involve much > code, mainly attention to detail to make sure that all of the type > definitions/ABI/etc. are correct, I think that for a proposal to be > big enough to make a reasonable GSoC project, it should go beyond just > the basic porting. Some ideas for things to include would be: > > - Improvement of porting documentation > > - Feedback/patches on where there's too much redundancy between ports > and how to reduce it (i.e. making improvements to musl that reduce > the amount of code/headers needed for a new port). > > - Patches for musl-cross and/or musl-cross-make (build systems for > generating a cross-compiler toolchain) to make it easy to build a > musl/riscv cross compiler. > > - Optimizing performance-critical code like memcpy or floating point > math functions for riscv. > > - Improving test coverage, especially for things that are easy to get > wrong in a new port. > > I'll follow up with more ideas if I think of any. > > Students interested in the project are welcome (and encouraged!) to > ask questions and discuss here on the musl list. Obviously everyone > should have in mind writing their own proposals but I want everyone to > have access to knowledge/resources/community for ideas. One other thing I forgot: I believe the riscv ABIs use IEEE quad for long double, but musl has very poor support for quad right now, Most functions just call out to the double functions; only a few that critically need to be exact actually do the right thing. Improving this situation is important for making riscv and other archs (aarch64, mips64) that use quad polished/first-class. Also the lowrisc-dev cc seems to have gotten dropped on these emails which are very relevant: http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/03/06/17 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/03/06/24 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/03/06/25 Rich
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