[Kernel-meetup] Kernel meetup summary [28th Jan 2017]

[Amit Kucheria]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<sid at reserved-bit.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The reserved-bit blog entry about the meetup went up yesterday.  If
> anybody else has written a blog entry about it, we would love to have
> those entries mentioned in the reserved-bit blog as well.
>
> It would be nice to have another meetup this month.  How about 25th or
> 26th Feb?

I might be able to make it on the 26th but expect to be very
jet-lagged. The meetup would be my attempt to stay awake that day.

> The one session Jitendra mentioned he wanted (and was willing to do) was
> a beginner guide to submitting their first patch to the kernel.  A few
> college students from PICT were very interested in joining, so I think
> they would benefit from this too.

If this is happening I can inform my nephew at PICT too and see if get
can get more people to turn up.

> I can talk people through discussions we had over the years to add
> multiarch support for ARM in the kernel and glibc, which should give an
> idea of some of the ways in which glibc and the kernel interact.

I'm interested in understanding why Ubuntu multilib and
cross-compilers can't coexist. I'd like the ability to compile for
x86_32, x86_64, and aarch64 and arm32 on the same machine. But the
debian/ubuntu toolchain maintainer doesn't think I should be able to
do this w/o chroots or jumping through other hoops[1].

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-defaults/+bug/1300211