Re: [PATCH] qemu: add ppc64le support to COMPATIBLE_HOST

["Andrew Geissler" <geissonator@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM, Ross Burton wrote:

> 
> Hi Andrew, Mingli,
> 
> 
>> On 16 Jun 2026, at 21:50, Andrew Geissler via lists.openembedded.org
>> <geissonator=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The move to qemu 11 and the enforcement of 64 bit machines broke ppc64le
>> machines. Add ppc64le wherever there is a ppc64 machine.
> 
> Interestingly this patch from Andrew conflicts with a patch from Mingli Yu
> which changes ppc64 to powerpc64[1].
> 
> Without triple-checking I’m more liable to believe your patch as I expect
> that you’re actually running PPC64LE servers (and also touches more places
> where COMPATIBLE_HOST is set), but I’m also wondering what Mingli’s patch
> is doing because it must have been sent for a reason.
> 
> Can you both compare each-others patches so we can understand what
> happened?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ross
> 
> [1] "qemu: Correct the ppc64 setting in COMPATIBLE_HOST”, https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/238884
> 

Yep I tested my patch on our POWER9 ppc64le based machine and verified it allowed me to build the latest OpenBMC distro. I submitted this patch because our CI process that utilizes a ppc64le stopped working when we picked up the latest oe-core in OpenBMC.

I poked around a bit and when I look at a POWER server that not running in little endian mode, I don't actually see ppc64 or powerpc64 from Mingli patch. As far as I can tell it's just powerpc (uname -p). So I don't have a lot vested in the non-ppc64le portion. If Mingli can confirm it tested fine for their config then I'm good if we just merge both patches, otherwise please merge mine at least :)

Andrew

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