Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] hurd: Add expected abilist files for x86_64

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:10 +0300, Sergey Bugaev wrote:
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 8:43 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > They will just *not* work with 64bit. The glue code is not ready at all,
> > and I think it's really not useful to spend time on that when we have
> > the rump drivers which should be working fine.
> 
> I was secretly hoping that the Linux drivers won't be fully abandoned
> with the rise of rump and lwip; but that Linux and non-Linux
> implementations will both stay as available alternatives. And that
> someone would upgrade the bundled Linux code (6.3 is out now...) --
> perhaps a future project for myself.

Please forget Linux code: drivers and pfinet. Rump and lwip is the future.
Additionally with pfinet and Linux drivers removed, Hurd code could be made
GPLv3+. That would be a _very_ large step ahead towards a pure GNU system.

Thanks!