Re: ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility
From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-04 17:24:04
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
Naturally on POWER the first cpu that has LE support is POWER8 so you can count on all other POWER8 features to be present.
This is not true. The oldest CPU the ELFv2 ABI (and so, powerpc64le-linux) supports is POWER8, but most 6xx/7xx CPUs had a working LE mode already. There are very old ABIs that support LE as well. Segher