Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On 11/08/14 17:14, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.08.14 15:57, Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) wrote: On Fri, 08.08.14 17:00, har...@redhat.com (har...@redhat.com) wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. What is support supposed to mean? Does that mean that the silicon for PPC32LE has and will never exist? Or does this mean that they are simply not interested in supporting Linux on ppc32le like this with support employees and stuff? I think if the silicon exists and people play around with it, we should keep the thing probably. However, if this is a theoretic architecture only, then let's kill it. Judging by this it's something that actually exists: http://lwn.net/Articles/408051/ Hence I think we should leave the arch in... Lennart Thanks. (As in, it's supported arch in Gentoo) ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On Fri, 08.08.14 17:00, har...@redhat.com (har...@redhat.com) wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. What is support supposed to mean? Does that mean that the silicon for PPC32LE has and will never exist? Or does this mean that they are simply not interested in supporting Linux on ppc32le like this with support employees and stuff? I think if the silicon exists and people play around with it, we should keep the thing probably. However, if this is a theoretic architecture only, then let's kill it. --- src/shared/architecture.h | 5 - 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shared/architecture.h b/src/shared/architecture.h index 71c79b1..2bbfb8a 100644 --- a/src/shared/architecture.h +++ b/src/shared/architecture.h @@ -90,13 +90,8 @@ Architecture uname_architecture(void); #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc64le-linux-gnu # endif #elif defined(__powerpc__) -# if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN #define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc-linux-gnu -# else -#define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC_LE -#error Missing LIB_ARCH_TUPLE for PPCLE -# endif #elif defined(__ia64__) # define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_IA64 # define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE ia64-linux-gnu Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On Mon, 11.08.14 15:57, Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) wrote: On Fri, 08.08.14 17:00, har...@redhat.com (har...@redhat.com) wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. What is support supposed to mean? Does that mean that the silicon for PPC32LE has and will never exist? Or does this mean that they are simply not interested in supporting Linux on ppc32le like this with support employees and stuff? I think if the silicon exists and people play around with it, we should keep the thing probably. However, if this is a theoretic architecture only, then let's kill it. Judging by this it's something that actually exists: http://lwn.net/Articles/408051/ Hence I think we should leave the arch in... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 15:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 08.08.14 17:00, har...@redhat.com (har...@redhat.com) wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. What is support supposed to mean? Does that mean that the silicon for PPC32LE has and will never exist? Or does this mean that they are simply not interested in supporting Linux on ppc32le like this with support employees and stuff? I think if the silicon exists and people play around with it, we should keep the thing probably. However, if this is a theoretic architecture only, then let's kill it. --- src/shared/architecture.h | 5 - 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shared/architecture.h b/src/shared/architecture.h index 71c79b1..2bbfb8a 100644 --- a/src/shared/architecture.h +++ b/src/shared/architecture.h @@ -90,13 +90,8 @@ Architecture uname_architecture(void); #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc64le-linux-gnu # endif #elif defined(__powerpc__) -# if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN #define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc-linux-gnu -# else -#define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC_LE -#error Missing LIB_ARCH_TUPLE for PPCLE -# endif #elif defined(__ia64__) # define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_IA64 # define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE ia64-linux-gnu Lennart Yeah it does technically exist as your follow up email suggests. Nobody at IBM is interested in supporting it. So I am cool with leaving it in. Brent ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:40:40 +0200 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 05:00:11PM +0200, har...@redhat.com wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. They might now want to support it, but we might want to have the tuple anyway. I think there is no problem with keeping the 32-bit LE triplet, even when it makes very little sense to actually do such distro Dan Zbyszek --- src/shared/architecture.h | 5 - 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shared/architecture.h b/src/shared/architecture.h index 71c79b1..2bbfb8a 100644 --- a/src/shared/architecture.h +++ b/src/shared/architecture.h @@ -90,13 +90,8 @@ Architecture uname_architecture(void); #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc64le-linux-gnu # endif #elif defined(__powerpc__) -# if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN #define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc-linux-gnu -# else -#define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC_LE -#error Missing LIB_ARCH_TUPLE for PPCLE -# endif #elif defined(__ia64__) # define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_IA64 # define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE ia64-linux-gnu -- 2.0.3 ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. --- src/shared/architecture.h | 5 - 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shared/architecture.h b/src/shared/architecture.h index 71c79b1..2bbfb8a 100644 --- a/src/shared/architecture.h +++ b/src/shared/architecture.h @@ -90,13 +90,8 @@ Architecture uname_architecture(void); #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc64le-linux-gnu # endif #elif defined(__powerpc__) -# if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN #define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc-linux-gnu -# else -#define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC_LE -#error Missing LIB_ARCH_TUPLE for PPCLE -# endif #elif defined(__ia64__) # define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_IA64 # define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE ia64-linux-gnu -- 2.0.3 ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Removed PPC 32 bit LE architecture
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 05:00:11PM +0200, har...@redhat.com wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com According to Brent Baude bba...@redhat.com, who provided the patch, IBM doesn't want to support the PPC 32 bit LE architecture at all. They might now want to support it, but we might want to have the tuple anyway. Zbyszek --- src/shared/architecture.h | 5 - 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shared/architecture.h b/src/shared/architecture.h index 71c79b1..2bbfb8a 100644 --- a/src/shared/architecture.h +++ b/src/shared/architecture.h @@ -90,13 +90,8 @@ Architecture uname_architecture(void); #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc64le-linux-gnu # endif #elif defined(__powerpc__) -# if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN #define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC #define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE powerpc-linux-gnu -# else -#define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_PPC_LE -#error Missing LIB_ARCH_TUPLE for PPCLE -# endif #elif defined(__ia64__) # define native_architecture() ARCHITECTURE_IA64 # define LIB_ARCH_TUPLE ia64-linux-gnu -- 2.0.3 ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
