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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 12:12:32 -0500
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Daniel Kolesa <daniel@...aforge.org>
Cc: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
        eery@...erfox.es, musl@...ts.openwall.com,
        Will Springer <skirmisher@...tonmail.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt via binutils <binutils@...rceware.org>,
        via libc-dev <libc-dev@...ts.llvm.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
> well, ppc64le already cannot be run on those, as far as I know (I don't think it's possible to build ppc64le userland without VSX in any configuration)

VSX is required by the ELFv2 ABI:

"""
Specifically, to use this ABI and ABI-compliant programs, OpenPOWER-
compliant processors must implement the following categories:

[...]

Vector-Scalar
"""


Segher

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