I created a couple of merge requests in the repo, with those MRs merged I
think the powerpc code is stable to be included in the upcoming version of
nettle.

regards,
Mamone

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:28 PM Maamoun TK <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I wonder which assembly files we should use if target host is aarch64,
>> but ABI=32? I guess the arm/v6/ code can be used unconditionally. Can
>> we also use arm/neon/ code unconditionally?
>>
>
> It seems gcc for aarch64 doesn't support building 32-bit binaries, maybe
> we should remove the check of ABI since 64-bit is the only option. I tried
> adding arm/v6 and arm/neon unconditionally, both yield a bunch of errors
> such as the integer register is r4 instead of w4 or x4 plus getting a few
> unknown mnemonics.
>
> Do you agre with aiming for a release pretty soon, including the new
>> powerpc64 code, but no aarch64 code?
>>
>
> Isn't starting a new version with both powerpc64 and aarch64 changes is
> more reasonable? I'm not sure here, if there are a few commits before
> powerpc64 patches then it makes sense to wrap up the current version with
> powerpc64 code. It's up to you to decide, you can also consider an AES
> modes optimizations for S390x arch which I'll drop its patch in the next
> few days.
>
> regards,
> Mamone
>
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