Musl C library releases support for new architectures [LWN.net]

On February 29, the musl project announced release 1.2.5, including support for loongarch64 and riscv32. This release also contains support for the statx(), preadv2(), and pwritev2() system calls.

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Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 3, 2024 19:05 UTC (Sun) by prydt (guest, #169886) [Link] (6 responses)

Congrats on the release! Excited for the RISC-V support.

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 3, 2024 21:00 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (5 responses)

Musl has already had riscv support for a while. This version has added 32-bit support specifically.

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 4, 2024 1:34 UTC (Mon) by makendo (guest, #168314) [Link] (1 responses)

I think we can say we finally have a libc for embedded usecases for RISC-V that require a full OS kernel?

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 4, 2024 1:57 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Musl requires the Linux kernel to work.

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 8, 2024 3:42 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link] (2 responses)

Isn't Linux removing support for 32 bit though?

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 8, 2024 3:49 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Not any time soon

Musl C library releases support for new architectures

Posted Mar 8, 2024 8:01 UTC (Fri) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

Support in the mainline distributions and support in the kernel itself are two quite different things.