Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:27:33 +0200 | From | Michal Suchánek <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.18-1 tag |
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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
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