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> From: Jon Masters <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: AArch64 triplet
> Date: November 22, 2012 3:32:45 AM EST
> To: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 20 November 2012 03:25:56 Jon Masters wrote:
>>> The only reason for making a change at this time appears to be cosmetic,
>>> for removing /lib for example. I can understand that, and if we were
>>> discussing this a year ago (or even months ago when I first raised it on
>>> this list), then it might be a reasonable change, but at this time I
>>> cannot find an overwhelming technical justification.
>> 
>> i don't think removal of /lib/ is really feasible.  that's the path that 
>> gets 
>> used for firmware (/lib/firmware/) and kernel modules (/lib/modules/<kver>/) 
>> regardless of the default ABI on the system.
>> 
>> similarly, userspace packages are using that path for supplemental files 
>> like 
>> the bootloader (grub) or ABI-independent settings (udev rules).
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. By "getting rid" what I mean is not having libraries 
> in there. As is obvious, there will always be plenty of stuff in there, and 
> it's mandated by standards anyway. So, really, if it's down to whether we 
> (Fedora) have one thing in /lib that could be in /lib64 vs. not then I would 
> rather just keep the dynamic linker where it is in /lib and move on with life.
> 
> By the way, we announced our initial Fedora bootstrap work tonight. The wiki 
> has a lot of information about what is currently being done, along with 
> initial images that will grow:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64
> 
> Jon.
> 


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