[PATCH] powerpc/64: BE option to use ELFv2 ABI for big endian kernels

[Nicholas Piggin]

Segher Boessenkool's on March 5, 2020 8:55 pm:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:34:22PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Segher Boessenkool's on March 4, 2020 9:09 am:
>> >> +override flavour := linux-ppc64v2
>> > 
>> > That isn't a good name, heh.  This isn't "v2" of anything...  Spell out
>> > the name "ELFv2"?  Or as "elfv2"?  It is just a name after all, it is
>> > version 1 in all three version fields in the ELF headers!
>> 
>> Yeah okay. This part is only for some weird little perl asm generator
>> script, but probably better to be careful. linux-ppc64-elfv2 ?
> 
> That generator is from openssl, or inspired by it, it is everywhere.
> So it is more important to get it right than it would seem at first
> glance ;-)
> 
> That name looks perfect to me.  You'll have to update REs expecting the
> arch at the end (like /le$/), but you had to already I think?

le$ is still okay for testing ppc64le, unless you wanted me to add the 
-elfv2 suffix on there as well? If that was the case, for consistency
we'd also have to add -elfv1 for the BE v1 case. I was just going to add
-elfv2 for the new variant.

Thanks,
Nick