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From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour
Date: Wed,  8 Jun 2005 22:50:17 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050608205017.861757D1D4@grape.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>

In article <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> you wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:49:48 +0200
> 
>> With the LINUX32 personality, you can build 32 bit binaries through
>> autoconf, rpmbuild, or the kernel without pretending to be
>> cross-compiling. It may not be the best solution, but people seem to
>> rely on it and the patch brings ppc64 in line with how it works on
>> the other architectures.
> 
> I totally agree, this has a large precedence on many platforms
> and there are even gcc frontends that check the uname output
> to decide what code model to output by default.

Actually what you then do (which is the standard way) is

powerpc32 bash --login

which gives you a shell with 32bit personality and work from
this.

Ciao, Marcus

       reply	other threads:[~2005-06-08 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-06-08 20:50 ` Marcus Meissner [this message]
2005-06-08 11:59 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour Paul Mackerras
2005-06-08 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-08 18:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-08 19:19     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-08 20:45       ` Olaf Hering
2005-06-08 20:45   ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-08 20:54     ` Juergen Kreileder
2005-06-08 22:40       ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-09  7:02         ` Juergen Kreileder
2005-06-08 23:12   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-06-08 23:16     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-11 11:24       ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-08 23:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-08 23:12   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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