Re: [PATCH V11 3/4] rust: Add PowerPC support

Gary Guo
2026-04-21T15:59:54Z

On Fri Apr 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM BST, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) wrote:
> From: Link Mauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
>
> For now only Big Endian 32-bit PowerPC is supported, as that is the only
> hardware I have. This has been tested on the Nintendo Wii so far, but I
> plan on also using it on the GameCube, Wii U and Apple G4.
>
> These changes aren’t the only ones required to get the kernel to compile
> and link on PowerPC, libcore will also have to be changed to not use
> integer division to format u64, u128 and core::time::Duration, otherwise
> __udivdi3() and __umoddi3() will have to be added. I have tested this
> change by replacing the three implementations with unimplemented!() and
> it linked just fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Link Mauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/105
> Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/451
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

> ---
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 ++
> rust/Makefile | 4 +++-
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)