Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:07:29 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support |
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Hi Borislav,
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:04 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal > > patch to see if anyone screams. > > And they're like two for which we need confirmation: > > $ git ls-files | grep a.out-core.h > arch/alpha/include/asm/a.out-core.h > arch/m68k/include/asm/a.out-core.h > arch/um/include/asm/a.out-core.h > arch/x86/include/asm/a.out-core.h > > um and x86 are clear. > > Adding alpha and m68k MLs to Cc.
Thanks!
The oldest binaries I still have lying around (an ext2 ramdisk image, still used from time to time) are ELF, from just after the a.out to ELF transition on m68k.
I think it's safe to assume no one still runs a.out binaries on m68k.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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