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authorMarkos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>2012-11-28 11:34:13 +0000
committerBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2013-02-20 13:45:10 +0100
commit6a69d7fc632129310b76dd373379261420fadebf (patch)
treed26ee3608ba0235d99b8164527401174dbaf6825 /libc/sysdeps/linux/README
parent0eb30761a26c46aaf555464114851202ae9c27bd (diff)
libc/sysdeps: Add new interfaces for new architectures
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/README b/libc/sysdeps/linux/README
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@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ port uClibc to some new Linux architecture (arm, mips, etc), this is the place
to add that support.
All stuff that is not at all dependent on a particular Linux architecture
-goes in the 'common' directory.
+goes in the 'common' directory. However, for new architectures which are
+using the generic syscalls in the Linux Kernel, the 'common-generic'
+directory should be used instead as they all use identical interfaces for
+the system calls.