From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/64: BE option to use ELFv2 ABI for big endian kernels
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 04:55:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305105503.GZ22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1583379060.p6od1jalr3.astroid@bobo.none>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:34:22PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Segher Boessenkool's on March 4, 2020 9:09 am:
> >> +override flavour := linux-ppc64v2
> >
> > That isn't a good name, heh. This isn't "v2" of anything... Spell out
> > the name "ELFv2"? Or as "elfv2"? It is just a name after all, it is
> > version 1 in all three version fields in the ELF headers!
>
> Yeah okay. This part is only for some weird little perl asm generator
> script, but probably better to be careful. linux-ppc64-elfv2 ?
That generator is from openssl, or inspired by it, it is everywhere.
So it is more important to get it right than it would seem at first
glance ;-)
That name looks perfect to me. You'll have to update REs expecting the
arch at the end (like /le$/), but you had to already I think?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-05 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-03 1:45 [PATCH] powerpc/64: BE option to use ELFv2 ABI for big endian kernels Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-03 23:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-05 3:34 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-05 10:55 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-03-07 0:58 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-09 21:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
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