linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/16] kbuild: userprogs: also inherit byte order and ABI from kernel

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Message-ID: <20250611-celadon-buzzard-of-wholeness-d8c0ce@l-nschier-aarch64>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:53:50 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/16] kbuild: userprogs: also inherit byte order and
 ABI from kernel

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 09:38:08AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Make sure the byte order and ABI of the userprogs matches the one of the
> kernel, similar to how the bit size is handled.
> Otherwise the userprogs may not be executable.
> This happens for example on powerpc little endian, or riscv32.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@....de>