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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > ELFv2 BE ABI works fine on ppc64.

    Yes, I know. Void PPC successfully started it some years back, as comment #50 has been a testimony to.

    > I've been using it since v6.2 and never had any problems with it. Kernel also
    > gets a little bit smaller. As of v6.3 you can also build your BE kernel with
    > clang/lld (at least clang-15 is needed), which was not possible before.

    Yes, I took as much from your comment #70 and added the Clang info shortly after to comment #69 :-)

    > AFAIK it's only a ppc64-thing. 32bit ppc uses a different ABI anyhow.

    Yes both ELFv1 and ELFv2 ABI are PPC64-only (see comment #65). And yes, Linux/PPC32 uses SVR4 ABI (see comment #67).
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