On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 02:51:05PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:50 +0200, muzungu@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > Questions: > > > - Can I run an application compiled with gcc ABI 2.95 on a kernel > > > compiled with gcc ABI 3.4? > > > > Yes. The kernel ABI never changes in a backward-incompatible fashion. > > Unless you try switching your kernel to ARM EABI and don't update > > userspace to match -- don't do that :) > > Eek, can you say a bit more about the ARM EABI mismatch? > > I would like to run a shiny modern ARM EABI kernel and userspace, but > also need to run one or two OABI binaries (from the gcc 2.95 era) on > the same kernel which I cannot recompile because they're built with > closed source libraries only supplied as OABI. > > Does that not work at all? There are a few ioctl() incompatibilities between the two ABIs, the main problems are within the ALSA API. Mostly it will work, but there are a couple of caveats. -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
