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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, eery@paperfox.es,
	Daniel Kolesa <daniel@octaforge.org>,
	musl@lists.openwall.com,
	Will Springer <skirmisher@protonmail.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt via binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	via libc-dev <libc-dev@lists.llvm.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 12:20:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200604172053.GH31009@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200602152724.GU25173@kitsune.suse.cz>

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> Naturally on POWER the first cpu that has LE support is POWER8 so you
> can count on all other POWER8 features to be present.

This is not true.

The oldest CPU the ELFv2 ABI (and so, powerpc64le-linux) supports is
POWER8, but most 6xx/7xx CPUs had a working LE mode already.  There are
very old ABIs that support LE as well.


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29 19:03 ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility Will Springer
2020-05-29 19:24 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2020-05-30 22:56   ` Will Springer
2020-06-09 10:29     ` Will Springer
2020-06-09 16:06       ` Rich Felker
2020-05-30 15:37 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-30 22:17   ` Will Springer
2020-06-05 23:54     ` Will Springer
2020-06-12  5:13       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-30 19:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-31  0:57   ` Will Springer
2020-05-31 20:42     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-31 22:29       ` [musl] " Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02  1:36         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-01 21:28 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-01 21:36   ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2020-06-01 23:26   ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-01 23:45     ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-01 23:55       ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-02  0:13         ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02  0:11       ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 13:40         ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-02 14:23           ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-02 15:13             ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 15:27               ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-02 15:40                 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 15:56                   ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-04 17:20                 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-06-04 17:12               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 17:18                 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2020-06-04 17:33                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 17:46                     ` Rich Felker
2020-06-04 19:00                       ` David Edelsohn
2020-06-04 19:37                         ` Rich Felker
2020-06-04 20:39                     ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 21:10                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 21:43                         ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 22:08                           ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-04 22:26                             ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-05  0:02                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 23:42                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 23:35                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05  2:18                             ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-05 17:27                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05 17:50                                 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-05 23:45                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05 21:59                                 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-06  0:12                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-06  2:13                                     ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 21:55                       ` Phil Blundell
2020-06-04 22:06                         ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 23:06                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 23:43                           ` Phil Blundell
2020-06-02 14:52           ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02  2:12       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02  2:17         ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 13:50         ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-02 17:47           ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02  1:58     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02  2:09       ` [musl] " Jeffrey Walton
2020-06-02  2:12       ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02  2:36         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02  2:55           ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02  1:42   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02  2:03     ` Daniel Kolesa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-10-08 11:25 Will Springer

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