[patch/rfc,rfa:ppc64] Add osabi wildcard support

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >The table is almost certainly not complete, but that's not the problem
> >here.  The e500 is compatible with ppc - the e500 can run ppc code. 
> >Vice versa is not necessarily true.  There's a FIXME in osabi.c saying
> >that we should look for the most compatible architecture:
> 
> FYI, the e500 doesn't have the PPC's FPU so it can't (well ignoring 
> emulation) run PPC floating-point code.

Neither can half of the other PPCs that Linux runs on - the 8xx and 4xx
lines (well, most of the existing 4xx line, not all of it) don't have
an FPU either.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer