Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> writes: > 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.
It would be nice. The hesitation in the past was that the GNU toolchain developers don't officially support BE+ELFv2, though it is in use so it does work. > Maybe it's worth resurrecting? Yeah maybe we should think about it again. If it builds with clang/lld that would be a real plus. cheers
