Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:42:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> |
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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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