[PATCH] Add biarch support for powerpc64

Andreas Schwab schwab at linux-m68k.org
Tue Jul 6 19:29:06 UTC 2010


Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> writes:

> The kernel shares a single table in the source file.  So the correlation of
> numbers to names is really not going to vary (just a few of them are only
> used on ppc32).  IMHO it is better to print the names in case these
> ppc32-only syscalls are used in ppc64.

They are only used by ppc32 processes which are decoded with the other
personality's table anyway. (A few old ppc32 syscalls don't have compat
support in the ppc64 kernel, but that's not a problem.)

> It's all the struct decoding that would really be a lot of tedious work.

You have the struct decoding issues either way.

Andreas.

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