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Re: [PATCH] [PowerPC] VLE update
Thanks for the link !
I know that VLE is no longer supported. But anyway it still useful
because of existing MCUs for automotive.
So can we fork this ABI description and define new relocs? We have
free placeholders for that.
Alex
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Alexander Fedotov wrote:
>
>> > I think it would be better to define new R_PPC_VLE_PLTREL24 and
>> > R_PPC_VLE_LOCAL24 relocs, and make the assembler generate them when
>> > assembling VLE code.
>>
>> Nope, they are not defined by ABI at all. I agree it would be better
>> to rework. I will remove it from current patch set.
>
> Note that the current (as far as I know) 32-bit ABI sources are at
> <https://github.com/ryanarn/powerabi> - but the ABI mailing list is long
> dead (as is power.org) and as far as I know Ryan is no longer working on
> Power, so there may not be anyone to process pull requests or consider ABI
> additions.
>
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> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
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Best regards,
AF