From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/6] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default.
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 08:00:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190902130008.GZ31406@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftlftpy7.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:03:12PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> writes:
> > On bigendian ppc64 it is common to have 32bit legacy binaries but much
> > less so on littleendian.
>
> I think the toolchain people will tell you that there is no 32-bit
> little endian ABI defined at all, if anything works it's by accident.
There of course is a lot of powerpcle-* support. The ABI used for it
on linux is the SYSV ABI, just like on BE 32-bit.
There also is specific powerpcle-linux support in GCC, and in binutils,
too. Also, config.guess/config.sub supports it. Half a year ago this
all built fine (no, I don't test it often either).
I don't think glibc supports it though, so I wonder if anyone builds an
actual system with it? Maybe busybox or the like?
> So I think we should not make this selectable, unless someone puts their
> hand up to say they want it and are willing to test it and keep it
> working.
What about actual 32-bit LE systems? Does anyone still use those?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 21:03 [PATCH v7 0/6] Disable compat cruft on ppc64le v7 Michal Suchanek
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] powerpc: Add back __ARCH_WANT_SYS_LLSEEK macro Michal Suchanek
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] powerpc: move common register copy functions from signal_32.c to signal.c Michal Suchanek
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] powerpc/perf: consolidate read_user_stack_32 Michal Suchanek
2019-09-02 3:53 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-02 4:01 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-02 8:26 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-09-02 23:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] powerpc/64: make buildable without CONFIG_COMPAT Michal Suchanek
2019-08-31 6:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-31 13:02 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default Michal Suchanek
2019-09-02 2:03 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-02 9:42 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-09-03 0:00 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-14 10:22 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-09-18 5:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-02 13:00 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-09-02 23:53 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-03 5:21 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] powerpc/perf: split callchain.c by bitness Michal Suchanek
2019-08-31 18:51 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-31 6:41 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] Disable compat cruft on ppc64le v7 Christophe Leroy
2019-08-31 18:03 ` Michal Suchánek
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