On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 08:07:13PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 3:25 AM Michael Ellerman <m...@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
