[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/9] arch/powerpc: Hide SPE ABI behind CPU type

[Yann E. MORIN]

Joel, All,

On 2022-08-05 06:05 +0000, Joel Stanley spake thusly:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 21:22, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:17:55 +0200
> > "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> > > So we should just drop the choice altogether, and use the SPE ABI when
> > > the CPu has SPE.
[--SNIP--]
> > and SPE is no longer supported by upstream GCC. For now, we have kept
> > GCC 8.x around just to support this SPE ABI, but it is clearly not a
> > future proof solution.
> > Can we drop support for SPE entirely?
> I vote for dropping support. Given the lack of GCC support it's only a
> matter of time before our hand would be forced.

That's totally fine by me, too, with a commit log that summarises this
discussion of course! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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