[RFC][PATCH] powerpc/64be: use ELFv2 ABI for big endian kernels

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 01:20:09 AEDT 2016


On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question, are there any fundamental reasons we shouldn't use the ELFv2
> ABI to build big endian kernels if the compiler supports it?
>

Does this have implications w.r.t interfaces to

1. openfirmware/skiboot
2. glibc/vdso

Keen to find out as well

Balbir Singh.


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