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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support
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Hi Borislav!

On 1/15/22 12:37, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> I mean that I can rip it out on m68k.
>>>
>>> Who's gonna take care of alpha?
>>
>> I'm sceptical anyone would:
>>
>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/alpha/
>> Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
>> Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
>>
>> which leaves me. I could give it a try.
>
> Well, on that old thread from 2019 people expressed the wish to be able
> to run a.out binaries on Alpha. Let's see whether that has changed in
> the meantime.

Checking on the message I sent three years ago, it didn't seem that I was opposed
to removing a.out support, but that I would be happy to help test the patches.

I don't have any particular use case for a.out support either.

Adrian

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