Re: Plan needed for switching m68k to 32-bit alignment

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Wed, 2024-11-13 at 20:55 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Sure, you do pretty much all the work on Debian/68k, so you get to decide.
> > 
> > If this involves changes at kernel level (syscall parameter alignment?) 
> > however, my recommendation would be to rather drop the port than end up 
> > with new kernels no longer backwards compatible with old user space.
> > 
> > Otherwise, I'd not even be in a position to do any kernel testing and 
> > bugfixing (which often requires hardware, not emulators).
> 
> I don't buy this argument. Why would your world fall apart if we switch
> alignment to 4 bytes. I seriously don't get it.

If your concern is that you won't be able to build a small userspace anymore,
then you should keep in mind that you will always be able to do that with the
help of Buildroot or Toybox.

FWIW, the suggestion to update the kernel ABI came from Geert, not from me.

Adrian

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