[parisc-linux] ELF ABI Documents

[John David Anglin]

> There is also some communication between the LSB workgroup and the Austin 
> Group and they are both benefitting from the other's work.

I'm aware of this and the efforts to align POSIX and the LSB where
differences exist.  The majority of areas where differences exist
between POSIX and linux are resolved in current implementations.
Thus, it appears that the standards can be aligned in future updates
without too much difficulty.

FWIW, I personally believe that the development of the LSB was a
useful effort.  However, as you know, one of Austin Group participants
believes the LSB to be useless...   Time will tell.

> > If it's
> > possible to obtain full community support, it's more likely that the
> > document would be useful and a guide to implementors.  However,
> > just documenting what is would be useful.
> 
> Here, here! And don't worry about doing the work via the LSB, just produce the 
> standard and the LSB will adopt it when it makes sense.

It would be a significant achievement if production of these documents
allowed PA-RISC to become part of the LSB standard!  I think it fair to
say that almost all (all?) of the processor specific documents referenced
by the LSB were developed by commercial entities rather than the open source
community at large.

Dave
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