From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503F7C43381 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2744B214D8 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727462AbfCLIos (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:44:48 -0400 Received: from mail-vs1-f66.google.com ([209.85.217.66]:38636 "EHLO mail-vs1-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726218AbfCLIos (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:44:48 -0400 Received: by mail-vs1-f66.google.com with SMTP id h132so1092889vsd.5; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:44:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=YYHhDPutvmRW/s4Gd5kvh+ag+8DUkGkrMyTX/zZ528U=; b=ioJ/EyDCWGWfirfmy+n92Ka9VgMPamXuPC/7EQ/i6M4oOPkK9smm05/xbJRoh5WaWV idIjtlRbEo8QIyIIZoATzr6vynoMh4BB1bNVbIcorr0Skey0Tdt6I+/WADsiM1VYFUkI QL8cFi3FIIGI84CNmoHt5luo7qqrUovCuBEmeJQkVfGWltD10uqq860mepBql2S146o8 hTWit2oj4FJvg/4pGr/utmUZZgW3iYio0wMN5p9GTLNXNX5MmdZtCgTiHFjhVzkGWBVj Gb6xyBDcOWvEsajDfW5+ayQe71E63G9avYL7xBfeXmKv0TGd1fGS437I1TfQsY0lnyO5 4NBg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVkzIGDS735mV2RYxMRMlA/1bFnB46l9KB3BHaaKTI/NLk8Uisu UHn8ndJZ3wALX7sySr5pKYHQQv8GslbShYynmuKj6g== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzLuzfNCmbrcazvRI4ZsxYTz25X7Z4NR8xn99ABERz4UAk219Vc87Zwd+8iTok5ZV83UM/5HKd55zwzdeREARs= X-Received: by 2002:a67:fc9a:: with SMTP id x26mr19461608vsp.166.1552380286385; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:44:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190305091904.GB8256@zn.tnic> <20190305122218.GD13380@bombadil.infradead.org> <20190305134347.4be2449c@alans-desktop> <20190305145717.GD8256@zn.tnic> <20190305173134.GE8256@zn.tnic> <20190305181138.GG8256@zn.tnic> <20190305181808.GH8256@zn.tnic> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:44:34 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arnd Bergmann , =?UTF-8?B?TcOlbnMgUnVsbGfDpXJk?= , Matt Turner , Borislav Petkov , Alan Cox , Matthew Wilcox , Jann Horn , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , kernel list , linux-fsdevel , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , Linux API , Andrew Morton , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , linux-alpha , linux-m68k Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape > > Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version. > > Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably > > a bit pointless, but there may be other use cases. > > The _really_ main version was that I decided to make my life easier > for the initial alpha port by trying to run basic (tested) OSF/1 > binaries directly. > > Netscape may have been one of the binaries people actually ended up > using, but it's probably not a reason any more, since the internet has > moved past that anyway. Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long gone... 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