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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000
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Ports-related README updates.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--README7
-rw-r--r--ports/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--ports/README17
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 08e7613e20..b1b2ff33ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2012-12-05  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
+	* README: Don't refer to ports add-on as distributed separately.
+	Mention AArch64 in list of systems supported in the ports add-on.
+
 	* LICENSES: Add more non-FSF copyright and license notices.
 
 	* soft-fp/op-common.h (_FP_DECL): Declare X##_s with __attribute__
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1d90b55208..b34d5c05b5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -35,11 +35,10 @@ The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
 	sparc64*-*-linux-gnu
 
 The code for other CPU configurations supported by volunteers outside of
-the core glibc maintenance effort is contained in the separate `ports'
-add-on.  You can find glibc-ports-VERSION distributed separately in the
-same place where you got the main glibc distribution files.
-Currently these configurations have code in the `ports' add-on:
+the core glibc maintenance effort is contained in the `ports' add-on,
+located in the `ports' subdirectory of the source tree.
 
+	aarch64*-*-linux-gnu
 	alpha*-*-linux-gnu
 	am33*-*-linux-gnu	Not currently functional
 	arm-*-linux-gnueabi
diff --git a/ports/ChangeLog b/ports/ChangeLog
index 5adf0ec58a..aa9ccc2bb6 100644
--- a/ports/ChangeLog
+++ b/ports/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2012-07-03  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
+	* README: Don't refer to ports as a separate repository.  Don't
+	refer to scripts/data/.
+
 	* .gitignore: Remove file.
 	* Banner: Likewise.
 	* Makefile: Likewise.
diff --git a/ports/README b/ports/README
index 51e0a303b6..7c27ccc81e 100644
--- a/ports/README
+++ b/ports/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is the glibc ports repository, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
+This is the glibc ports add-on, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
 It contains code that is not maintained in the official glibc source tree.
 
 This includes working ports to GNU/Linux on some machine architectures that
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ but may be useful for some future porter to examine.  It may also include
 some optimized functions tailored for specific CPU implementations of an
 architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu.
 
-The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
-<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate
-ports git repository.  See
+The ports add-on is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
+<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the ports
+subdirectory of the glibc git repository.  See
 http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using
-git.  To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please
-go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under
-the glibc "ports" component.
+git.  To report a bug in code housed in the ports add-on, please go to
+http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under the
+glibc "ports" component.
 
 An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/
 subdirectories containing the port's code.  You may want to include a
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure file; this can either be written by hand or
 generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the
 rules for glibc add-on configure fragments.  No preconfigure file should do
 anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put
-into a single add-on without interfering with each other.  Files that
-would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports.
+into a single add-on without interfering with each other.
 
 Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in
 the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script.