Am Montag, den 03.03.2014, 23:20 -0800 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> Pretty much... contact the glibc maintainers.  However, with glibc being a 
> GNU project you will have to sign a copyright transfer. 
> 
> On March 3, 2014 11:02:08 PM PST, Stefani Seibold <stef...@seibold.net> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >i want ask if there is a change to bring the patch back to tip?
> >
> >As requested the glibc patch is now available at 
> >
> >http://seibold.net/glibc.patch
> >
> >Any idea how to bring this patch into glibc? Is the process similar to
> >the kernel?
> >


I got responds from the glibc mailing list:

> Finally GLIBC current policy is to accept kernel internal
> that are *already* implemented in Linux kernel, so the vDSO support do x86 32 
> bit kernel
> should be either published in a kernel release on pushed in a stable kernel 
> tree (usually
> vanilla one).

So till the 32 bit VDSO time functions are not in the vanilla kernel
tree, there is no way to get in the patch into glibc.

- Stefani

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