Nathan Chancellor <nat...@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
