On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:46 PM Rich Felker [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:33:12PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:12:32PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:

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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:

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

This is not actually ABI but IBM policy laundered into an ABI
document, which musl does not honor.

It is the ABI.  If you think it should be different, make your own ABI,
don't pretend the existing ABI is different than what it is.  Thank you.

Our ABI is as specified in the ELFv2 document, but with ld as ld64,
and minus gratuitous requirements on ISA level that are not part of
implementing linkage.

Rich,

If you are changing the Power ELFv2 ABI then it is not the Power ELFv2
ABI.  You can't cherry-pick what you like and claim that it is
compatible.  You are not conforming to the ABI.

Thanks, David