[Buildroot] [PATCH] fbdump: Make fbdump available only to x86/x86_64/arm architectures

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 14 11:55:27 UTC 2012


Le Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:48:45 +0000,
Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras at imgtec.com> a écrit :

> Actually I don't think glibc supports ARM at all. From glibc's README file
> 
> "The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
> 
>     i[34567]86-*-linux-gnu
>     x86_64-*-linux-gnu
>     powerpc-*-linux-gnu
>     powerpc64-*-linux-gnu
>     s390-*-linux-gnu
>     s390x-*-linux-gnu
>     ia64-*-linux-gnu
>     sparc*-*-linux-gnu
>     sparc64*-*-linux-gnu"

It might be in glibc-ports, so that's why you don't see it in the main
glibc README. But definitely, glibc runs on ARM, PowerPC. Millions of
devices are using it as we are speaking :-)

Thomas
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