From owner-freebsd-ppc Thu Jul 27 2:54: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1554E37B9F2 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id CAA45295; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:53:40 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Narvi Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the abi Message-ID: <20000727025340.A45272@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006081840.LAA45708@server.manson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:57:46PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > For FreeBSD/ppc, I vote for whatever Linux/ppc uses (SVR4, I believe). I will only support (ie. as toolchain maintainer) a PPC ABI that is as close to what we do on the i386 and Alpha as possible. > Not only is this going to provide the most solid (and relevant to our > needs) toolchain, but it makes Linux ABI emulation in the kernel a little > easier. The ABI we use does not have to match the Linux/ppc one to do Linux emulation. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message