Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] LoongArch: Update NEWS and README for the LoongArch port.

[Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>]

On 08/05/2022 23:25, caiyinyu wrote:
> ---
>  NEWS             | 9 +++++++++
>  README           | 1 +
>  manual/math.texi | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index ef8ac4acd2..65070282bb 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ Major new features:
>    -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
>    in recent binutils versions.  Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
>  
> +* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added.  This port requires
> +  as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 10.0.0.  Currently only hard-float

I think you mean Linux 5.19 here.

> +  ABI is supported:
> +
> +    - loongarch64-linux-gnu
> +
> +  The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
> +  64-bit file offsets (LFS default).

I think you can omit the 64-bit time and LFS support, since both are default
for all 64-bit architectures.

Is the name 'loongarch64' implying a ILP32 variation in the future?

> +
>  Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>  
>  * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 3d5a78ccff..63f3a1bebf 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
>  	i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
>  	x86_64-*-linux-gnu	Can build either x86_64 or x32
>  	ia64-*-linux-gnu
> +	loongarch64-*-linux-gnu Hardware floating point, LE only.
>  	m68k-*-linux-gnu
>  	microblaze*-*-linux-gnu
>  	mips-*-linux-gnu
> diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi
> index 477a18b6d1..105d6122df 100644
> --- a/manual/math.texi
> +++ b/manual/math.texi
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ provided for @code{_Float32}, @code{_Float64} and @code{_Float32x} on
>  all platforms.
>  It is also provided for @code{_Float128} and @code{_Float64x} on
>  powerpc64le (PowerPC 64-bits little-endian), x86_64, x86, ia64,
> -aarch64, alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc.
> +aarch64, alpha, loongarch, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc.
>  
>  @menu
>  * Mathematical Constants::      Precise numeric values for often-used