Re: [edk2-devel] "StdLibPkg" branch on edk2-staging

["Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>]

I’d guess I’d also ask the why not NewLib? Especially since Red Hat helps out with edk2….

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Aug 4, 2021, at 4:03 AM, Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> I think the truth is we're a bit resigned about edk2-libc in general.
> My view is it should be either maintained or deprecated (or replaced).
> 
> And maintainership *should* mean at least keeping it up to date with
> security fixes.
> 
> I personally have no enthusiasm for the topic, but if there existed:
> - An up-to-date codebase.
> - A plan for keeping the coodbase up-to-date (as opposed to a plan to
>  keep the codebase up-to-date).
> - At least a couple of maintainers.
> I would have no objection to that existing under the TianoCore
> umbrella.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Leif
> 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 16:44:02 -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>> CC'ing the Tianocore stewards.
>> 
>> 
>> I've had problems getting a recent patch committed just to make edk2-libc
>> work against current edk2 master.
>> 
>> Tianocore stewards: do we need new or additional maintainers for edk2-libc,
>> or is there a plan to deprecate it?
>> 
>> 
>> The current maintainers are listed as:
>> 
>> StdLib, StdLibPrivateInternalFiles
>> W: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/StdLib
>> M: Daryl McDaniel <edk2-lists@mc2research.org>
>> M: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Rebecca Cran
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/28/21 4:25 PM, tim.lewis@insyde.com wrote:
>>> I would point out that there was significant work on libc in the
>> past (see https://github.com/andreiw/UefiToolsPkg) but never any
>> help to upstream these fixes, including making sure that many Linux
>> tools can easily be ported. I myself have used it to port several
>> BSD utilities over, but each time there will little nits with the
>> existing port and even small patches were returned with "no current
>> maintainer"
>>> 
>>> In terms of making other projects use libc, I think the other
>>> objection was that it was never optimized for non-shell
>>> usage. Other projects (lie
>>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/CdePkg ) have tried
>>> to remedy this, but never with source checked in. But it allows
>>> support under PEI, DXE, etc.
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 8:34 AM
>>> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; maciej.rabeda@linux.intel.com
>>> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] "StdLibPkg" branch on edk2-staging
>>> 
>>> Are you aware of the edk2-libc project at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-libc ?
>>> 
>>> 
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