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Re: The glibc LE powerpc support
- From: Steven Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:49:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: The glibc LE powerpc support
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On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 15:39 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Where the commits of glibc support for LE powerpc have fixed bugs filed in
> Bugzilla, please remember to add those bugs to the list of fixed bugs in
> the NEWS file and to close those bugs as fixed. Apart from the bugs you
> mentioned in the ChangeLog, did you conclude whether these changes fixed
> bug 5268 or not?
>
> There should be a NEWS file entry for the addition of LE powerpc support
> (as a significant new feature in 2.19), and it should be added to the list
> of supported configurations in the README file.
>
> I've filed bug 15998 for the arch_minimum_kernel issue (and 15997 for that
> issue for x32).
>
> Is the LE support intended to work for 32-bit, or only for 64-bit? If
> it's meant to work for 32-bit, you should also ensure that
> libc_cv_gcc_unwind_find_fde=yes is *not* set in that case, as that's only
> for backwards binary compatibility. If not, make sure it's disallowed for
> 32-bit at configure time.
>
There are no plans for IBM to support PPC32 for LE at this time.