Re: Xtensa syscalls (Was: Re: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 11:55:08 EST


Christian Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The question is, if we had to break glibc compatibility, shouldn't we
> use the opportunity to clean-up the syscall list? It was copied from
> MIPS and, thus, has inherited a lot of legacy from there. As a new
> architecture, maybe we should even go as far as removing all ni-syscalls
> and start fresh?

If you can cope with having the syscalls renumbered then yes, that would be
good.
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