Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:46:44 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:42 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have > > <asm/a.out.h> but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make > > sense? > > My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there. > > The affected architectures are: > - h8300 > - m32r > - parisc > - sh > - v850 > > v850 is broken beyond repair, and I hope my patch to remove the > architecture will make it into 2.6.27. > > For the other 4 architectures I have Cc'ed the architecture maintainers.
There's another set of architectures which have <asm/a.out.h> but don't define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT. Including PowerPC.
I think we can probably get away with removing <asm/a.out.h> from every architecture other than Alpha, ARM, m68k and x86, and killing ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT completely.
Or maybe, as dhowells suggests, re-defining ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT to be set only on Alpha, ARM, m68k and x86 (so BINFMT_AOUT can depend on it).
-- dwmw2
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