[PATCH 0/9] PowerPC64 ELFv2 ABI support.

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Nov 1 17:33:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Alan Modra wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 05:25:25PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Alan Modra wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch series makes the changes necessary in binutils to support
> > > the updated PowerPC64 ABI, which we're calling ELFv2.  Two major
> > > changes from the previous ABI are
> > 
> > Is there an actual ABI document for this (or one with the old/new 
> > variations tagged appropriately like in the 32-bit unified ABI)?
> 
> There is, but it's not ready for general release yet, I think.

Thanks.  FWIW, in the Power.org ABI TSC there was a suggestion we should 
work on updating the 64-bit ABI (for things such as VSX) having got the 
32-bit one done, but nothing ever came of it.  (There was some work on 
adding VSX to the 32-bit ABI - on the vsx branch of 
git://github.com/ryanarn/powerabi - though this tailed off without us 
getting a 1.1 release out.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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