On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 05:11:54PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org> writes: > > Currently, CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 is not selectable with > > ld.lld because of an explicit dependency on GNU ld, due to lack of > > testing with LLVM. > > > > Erhard was kind enough to test this option on his hardware with LLVM 15, > > which ran without any issues. This should not be too surprising, as > > ld.lld does not have support for the ELFv1 ABI, only ELFv2, so it should > > have decent support. With this series, big endian kernels can be built > > with LLVM=1. > > > > This has seen our basic set of powerpc configurations with clang-15, > > clang-16, and clang-17 but I will never be opposed to more testing :) > > > > The first two patches fix a couple of issues I noticed while build > > testing and the final patch actually allows the option to be selected. > > Thanks for this. > > I thought about applying this last week but decided not to. I'll plan to > pick it up for 6.4.
No worries, I sent this much later in the development cycle than I had initially intended, so I figured that 6.3 was a long shot anyways. Plus more soak time is never a bad thing :) Thanks for taking the initial look, cheers! Nathan