Re: Experimental musl Port for FreeBSD

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:44 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Kudos!
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 8:31 PM ShengYi Hung <aokblast@freebsd.org> 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 there
> 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.
>