From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Daniel Kolesa <daniel@octaforge.org>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, <eery@paperfox.es>,
<musl@lists.openwall.com>,
Will Springer <skirmisher@protonmail.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt via binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
via libc-dev <libc-dev@lists.llvm.org>,
<linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: [musl] Re: ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 23:55:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006012351270.11121@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006012329420.11121@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Joseph Myers wrote:
> The minimum supported architecture for powerpc64le (POWER8) has VSX. My
> understanding was that the suggestion was for 32-bit userspace to run
> under powerpc64le kernels running on POWER8 or later, meaning that such a
> 32-bit LE port, and any ABI designed for such a port, can assume VSX is
> available. Or does VSX not work, at the hardware level, for 32-bit
> POWER8? (In which case you could pick another ABI for binary128 argument
> passing and return.)
In fact, my understanding is that the ABI for passing binary128 values in
vector registers is perfectly implementable for processors with just VMX
(AltiVec) and not VSX. So if you do want to support binary128 for a new
ABI for either 32-bit LE or 32-bit or 64-bit BE, you don't need to require
VSX for that ABI, you just need to change any GCC requirement for VSX for
binary128 to allow it with VMX when building for your new ABI.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-01 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-29 19:03 [musl] " Will Springer
2020-05-29 19:24 ` Rich Felker
2020-05-30 22:56 ` Will Springer
2020-05-30 15:37 ` [musl] " Christophe Leroy
2020-05-30 22:17 ` Will Springer
2020-06-05 23:54 ` Will Springer
2020-06-12 5:13 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-30 19:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-31 0:57 ` Will Springer
2020-05-31 20:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-31 22:29 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 1:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-01 21:28 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-01 21:36 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-01 23:26 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-01 23:45 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-01 23:55 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2020-06-02 0:13 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 0:11 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 13:40 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-02 14:23 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-02 15:13 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 15:27 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-02 15:40 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 15:56 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-06-04 17:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 17:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 17:18 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-04 17:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 17:46 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-04 19:00 ` David Edelsohn
2020-06-04 19:37 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-04 20:39 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 21:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 21:43 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-04 22:08 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-04 22:26 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-05 0:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 23:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-04 23:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05 2:18 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-05 17:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05 17:50 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-05 23:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-05 21:59 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-06 0:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-06 2:13 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 14:52 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 2:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02 2:17 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 13:50 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-02 17:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02 1:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02 2:09 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-06-02 2:12 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 2:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02 2:55 ` Daniel Kolesa
2020-06-02 1:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-02 2:03 ` Daniel Kolesa
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