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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu,
	erhard_f@mailbox.org, nathan@kernel.org, ndesaulniers@google.com,
	trix@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	patches@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Allow CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 with ld.lld 15+
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:11:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn4cyifp.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230118-ppc64-elfv2-llvm-v1-0-b9e2ec9da11d@kernel.org>

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> writes:
> Currently, CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 is not selectable with
> ld.lld because of an explicit dependency on GNU ld, due to lack of
> testing with LLVM.
>
> Erhard was kind enough to test this option on his hardware with LLVM 15,
> which ran without any issues. This should not be too surprising, as
> ld.lld does not have support for the ELFv1 ABI, only ELFv2, so it should
> have decent support. With this series, big endian kernels can be built
> with LLVM=1.
>
> This has seen our basic set of powerpc configurations with clang-15,
> clang-16, and clang-17 but I will never be opposed to more testing :)
>
> The first two patches fix a couple of issues I noticed while build
> testing and the final patch actually allows the option to be selected.

Thanks for this.

I thought about applying this last week but decided not to. I'll plan to
pick it up for 6.4.

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-20  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-15 18:41 [PATCH 0/3] Allow CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 with ld.lld 15+ Nathan Chancellor
2023-02-15 18:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/boot: Only use '-mabi=elfv2' with CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER Nathan Chancellor
2023-02-15 18:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Fix use of '-mabi=elfv2' with clang Nathan Chancellor
2023-02-15 18:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Allow CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 with ld.lld 15+ Nathan Chancellor
2023-02-20  6:11 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2023-02-20 15:51   ` [PATCH 0/3] " Nathan Chancellor
2023-03-22 12:25 ` Michael Ellerman

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