Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] rust: Add PowerPC support

[Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 08:11:17PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 8:07 PM Link Mauve <linkmauve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Should we come back to describing the target like I did in my first
> > patch[1] in scripts/generate_rust_target.rs, or should I bring that to
> > Rust to create a powerpc-unknown-unknown-softfloat target upstream?  Or
> > is there a better third solution I’m not thinking of?
> 
> We are trying to stop using the custom target specs, so we should ask
> upstream to give you a built-in target you can use (or equivalently, a
> flag to do what you need, but I think the idea is to not have such a
> flag).
> 
> i.e. even if you used the custom target JSON, we would still need to
> ask, since the goal is to remove that script entirely.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel

Sorry for the spam, my earlier message got rejected.

I think, disabling altivec, fpu and vsx with compiler flag will work.

What are your opinion on this?

Regards,
Mukesh