From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
yellowdog-devel@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Status of 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux, anyone working with NPTL?
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:55:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021103185509.GA2437@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66242FA2-EF5C-11D6-81A1-0003938E434C@ivey.uwo.ca>
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:45:18PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >I also vaguely recall that Geoff has a list of ABI changes pending.
> >Perhaps we should do all these at the same time.
> >
> Current violations of the abi for ppc linux include:
>
> - missing support for small structure return values in register pairs
> r3, r4
I thought support for this already in place, but gcc had the wrong
endianness in the registers. If this is so, I already have a patch
for this (not commited though ;-)).
> think about a
> simultaneous push of patches to many of these projects to help them
> maintain
> support for ppc linux.
But but... I've been hacking gcc so long, I can only write in K&R :-).
Aldy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-09 15:12 Status of 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux, anyone working with NPTL? Kevin Hendricks
2002-10-09 16:34 ` David Edelsohn
2002-10-09 17:14 ` Kevin Hendricks
2002-11-03 18:28 ` Aldy Hernandez
2002-11-03 18:45 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-11-03 18:55 ` Aldy Hernandez [this message]
2002-11-03 20:06 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-10-10 2:26 ` Tom Rini
2002-10-27 12:30 ` Giuliano Pochini
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