Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM)

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Sul, 2004-08-29 at 17:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-08-26 at 05:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The big nasty is that userspace has very little to go on here. We need
> to report the limits of the address space somewhere for this kind of
> affair and probably even hammer out our own addenda to ABI specs so
> instead of SVR4 $ARCH/ELF ABI spec we have a Linux $ARCH/ELF ABI spec.
> I see no one so motivated to make backward-incompatible ABI changes
> that they are willing to do that kind of work.

Ok so I can compile with a.out support. End of problem, that makes the
patch useful and "spec compliant", although the spec compliance is
irrelevant anyway. The spec doesn't determine what Linux is it's a
useful reference for normality. Special cases are special cases and you
harm the system by seeking to stop stuff that works purely for pieces of
paper.