On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:56 AM Serhey Popovych
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Historically first PowerPC ABI was big-endian only (elfv1 currently). It
> is standard ABI for both 32-bit ppc and 64-bit ppc64 architectures.
>
> With PowerPC little-endian support new ABI was introduced (elfv2) and it
> is used primarily with ppc64le target only. While it has support for
> big-endian it is not commonly used and elfv1 still preferred.
>
> Musl does support only elfv2 ABI for both LE and BE and does not have
> any plans to support elfv1.
>
> Since then to build for powerpc64 with musl new ABI should be used. As
> expected it is not compatible with elfv1 but that isn't problem as long
> as there is no binary distributed software or assembly code written for
> elfv1 ABI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <[email protected]>
> ---
> meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
> b/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
> index f751c6b..d9916d4 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
> +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
> @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ TUNECONFLICTS[m64] = "m32 nf"
> TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'm64', ' -m64', '',
> d)}"
> TUNE_ARCH .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', [ 'm64' ], 'powerpc64',
> '', d)}"
>
> +# musl only supports elfv2 ABI for ppc64
> +TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@['', ' -mabi=elfv2']['libc-musl' in
> d.getVar('OVERRIDES').split(':')]}"
> +
I wonder if we should change gcc to use this ABI by default when
configured for ppc64/musl ?
This would avoid us adding compiler options here, in bad cases it may
be that other compilers
call it out differently.
> # user mode qemu doesn't support ppc64
> MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = "
> ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'm64', 'qemu-usermode', '', d)}"
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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