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From:   "Jay Carlson" <nop@nop.com>
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Subject: RE: kernel should not reject -mips2 ELF binaries
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> > 	if (__h->e_flags & EF_MIPS_ARCH)				\
> > 		__res = 0;						\

> > So what's the right way to fix this?  Three things come to mind:
> >
> > 1) rip out the EF_MIPS_ARCH check from elf_check_arch.
>
> Take 1).  The problem we have is distiguishing Linux binaries from IRIX
> binaries.  The code causing problems for you is a heuristic that no
> longer works these days so I'll have to come up with something new.

OK.  I'm going to remove the above two lines in the Linux VR CVS repository.
Thanks!

Jay

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From: "Jay Carlson" <nop@nop.com>
Subject: RE: kernel should not reject -mips2 ELF binaries
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> > 	if (__h->e_flags & EF_MIPS_ARCH)				\
> > 		__res = 0;						\

> > So what's the right way to fix this?  Three things come to mind:
> >
> > 1) rip out the EF_MIPS_ARCH check from elf_check_arch.
>
> Take 1).  The problem we have is distiguishing Linux binaries from IRIX
> binaries.  The code causing problems for you is a heuristic that no
> longer works these days so I'll have to come up with something new.

OK.  I'm going to remove the above two lines in the Linux VR CVS repository.
Thanks!

Jay