[Skiboot] [PATCH 1/2] Initial support for the ELFv2 ABI

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Feb 6 19:04:56 AEDT 2017


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> Provide an experimental option to compile using ELFv2 ABI even on big
> endian builds. ELFv2 + BE is not officially supported by the toolchain,
> but it works quite well. It may be useful as a small step toward a
> little-endian build.
>
> This saves about 200kB of text/data.

Interestingly enough, only 12kb of skiboot.lid.xz, but there's still the
runtime saving.

I'm generally okay with keeping around various config options that are
"touch this if you know what you're doing", so, I'm happy to merge.

Merged to master as of 4ebde139333659b6de4516830a2785b8a89c08a4
-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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