PPC32 and state of the project

[Steve Munroe]

Keven Hendricks writes:

> Hi Franz,
>
> > On PPC32 we can simply use R2 as the thread register, it's unused and
> > saved/restored by the kernel (in the kernel it's used for the 'current'
> > pointer) and doesn't require any changes to the ABI.
>
> Okay R2 it is.  I will start looking at the linuxthreads code mods for
> using R2

I think there is still one issue to resolve with proposed PPC32 ABI change.
I believe R2 is used for -eabi.