From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: muzungu@gmx.net, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Can I run an application compiled with gcc ABI 2.95 on a kernel compiled with gcc ABI 3.4?
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242395765.4201.94.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515135105.GC8235@shareable.org>
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 14:51 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Eek, can you say a bit more about the ARM EABI mismatch?
>
> I would like to run a shiny modern ARM EABI kernel and userspace, but
> also need to run one or two OABI binaries (from the gcc 2.95 era) on
> the same kernel which I cannot recompile because they're built with
> closed source libraries only supplied as OABI.
>
> Does that not work at all?
>
> If it does work, which part of userspace must be EABI to work?
It was just a note of caution that sometimes we _do_ change the ABI.
I'm not 100% sure offhand whether the EABI kernel can support OABI
userspace; I didn't think so though.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-15 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 11:50 Can I run an application compiled with gcc ABI 2.95 on a kernel compiled with gcc ABI 3.4? muzungu
2009-05-15 12:31 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-15 13:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-15 13:55 ` Ben Dooks
2009-05-15 14:32 ` George G. Davis
2009-05-15 14:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-15 14:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-15 21:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-05-15 13:56 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-05-15 14:03 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2009-05-15 16:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
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