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

["Leif Lindholm" <leif@nuviainc.com>]

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 ?
> > 
> >