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From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.18-1 tag
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:27:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220330112733.GG163591@kunlun.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wngefnsu.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 08:07:13PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 3:25 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> 
> > That said:
> >
> >> There's a series of commits cleaning up function descriptor handling,
> >
> > For some reason I also thought that powerpc had actually moved away
> > from function descriptors, so I'm clearly not keeping up with the
> > times.
> 
> No you're right, we have moved away from them, but not entirely.
> 
> Functions descriptors are still used for 64-bit big endian, but they're
> not used for 64-bit little endian, or 32-bit.

There was a patch to use ABIv2 for ppc64 big endian. I suppose that
would rid usof the gunction descriptors for good.

Somehow the discussion of that change tralied off without any results.

Maybe it's worth resurrecting?

Thanks

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-30 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-25 10:25 [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.18-1 tag Michael Ellerman
2022-03-25 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-28  9:07   ` Michael Ellerman
2022-03-30 11:27     ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
2022-03-30 13:21       ` Michael Ellerman
2022-03-30 13:44         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-03-30 17:07         ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-25 17:18 ` pr-tracker-bot

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