Re: Experimental musl Port for FreeBSD

Warner Losh <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:24:34 -0600
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:44=E2=80=AFPM Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote=
:

> Kudos!
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 8:31=E2=80=AFPM ShengYi Hung <[email protected]=
g> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all FreeBSD hackers,
> >
> > Since Claude reset my token quota last week and I couldn't use all of
> it, I decided
> > to spend some time on an interesting side project: porting musl to
> FreeBSD.
>
> FWIW, I was proposing that as a GSoC some years ago. It would not ever
> replace
> our native libc but there are always people wanting to run experiments
> like creating
> distributions like Chimera BSD or Alpine BSD. Pretty much the reason ther=
e
> is/was
> a FreeBSD glibc port.
>

We are porting part of musl to the boot loader environment for kboot as a
GSOC.

Warner

I wonder if musl libc has some policy regarding AI contibutions :).
>
> Pedro.
>

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_contai=
ner"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:44=E2=80=
=AFPM Pedro Giffuni &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]<=
/a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0=
 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style=3D"f=
ont-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div d=
ir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr">Kudos!</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><di=
v>On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 8:31=E2=80=AFPM ShengYi Hung &lt;<a href=3D"mailt=
o:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">aokblast@freeb=
sd.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><div>&gt;</div><div>&gt; Hi all FreeBSD hackers,=
</div><div>&gt;</div><div>&gt; Since Claude reset my token quota last week =
and I couldn&#39;t use all of it, I decided</div><div>&gt; to spend some ti=
me on an interesting side project: porting musl to FreeBSD.</div><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><br></div></div>FWIW, I was proposing that as a GSoC some years ag=
o. It would not ever replace</div><div dir=3D"ltr">our native libc but ther=
e are always people wanting to run experiments like creating</div><div dir=
=3D"ltr">distributions like Chimera BSD or Alpine BSD. Pretty much the reas=
on there is/was</div><div dir=3D"ltr">a FreeBSD glibc port.</div></div></di=
v></blockquote></div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">We=
 are porting part of musl to the boot loader environment for kboot as a GSO=
C.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Warner=C2=A0</div><di=
v dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_=
quote_container"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8=
ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style=3D"font-fam=
ily:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir=3D"l=
tr">I wonder if musl libc has some policy regarding AI contibutions :).</di=
v><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr">Pedro.</div></div></div></blo=
ckquote></div></div></div>

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