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Re: [PATCH] Remove support for PowerPC e500 / SPE ISA extension.
On 21/05/2019 15:22, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:22 PM Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:51 PM, Adhemerval Zanella
>> <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 16/05/2019 14:54, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>> GCC 9 dropped support for the e500 variation of PowerPC, so I suggest
>>>> we should follow suit.
>>>
>>> I was about to send a similar patch. I will do a sanity check on
>>> powerpc-linux-gnu to see if this causes any regressions. It looks ok
>>> imho and I think it align with GCC move regarding the ABI.
>>
>> Thanks for the review. I will wait to hear the results of your sanity
>> check before pushing.
>
> Did you get around to doing this sanity check?
I saw no regressions on powerpc64le-linux-gnu, powerpc64-linux-gnu,
powerpc-linux-gnu, and powerpc-linux-gnu-power4. However, like you
I hit the same issue with powerpc-linux-gnu-soft configuration build
with hard float (link failures). I did not dig into yet.