From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
joerg@hydrops.han.de, dsd@gentoo.org, paulus@samba.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, lethal@linux-sh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make aout executables work again
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:12:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702101612.54161.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82e4877d0702100641h7b479c95mce3dfa65b0e6c779@mail.gmail.com>
> > > [*] I see the patch handles i386 and x86_64 - but I am not sure if
> > > something similar will be needed for the other arches to allow aout
> > > executables in absence of VDSO (powerpc, sh).
> >
> > Neither powerpc nor sh support a.out.
> >
>
> Ok, that's not a concern then. Not that I care about aout but if a
> simple fix can let it have VDSO and prevent special casing, I would
> prefer to let it have VDSO and still work - at least in the interest
> of preserving existing behavior.
Ok reasonable argument.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-10 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-10 2:31 [PATCH] Make aout executables work again Parag Warudkar
2007-02-10 12:58 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-10 13:50 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-02-10 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-10 14:41 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-02-10 15:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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