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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
next prev parent 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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