Re: [PATCH] a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on alpha and m68k

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-03-10T08:10:04Z

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:04 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> There has been repeated discussion on removing a.out support, the most
> recent was[1]. Having read through a bunch of the discussion it looks
> like no one has see any reason why we need to keep a.out support.
>
> The m68k maintainer has even come out in favor of removing a.out
> support[2].
>
> At a practical level with only two rarely used architectures building
> a.out support, it gets increasingly hard to test and to care about.
> Which means the code will almost certainly bit-rot.
>
> Let's see if anyone cares about a.out support on the last two
> architectures that build it, by disabling the build of the support in
> Kconfig. If anyone cares, this can be easily reverted, and we can then
> have a discussion about what it is going to take to support a.out
> binaries in the long term.
>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220113160115.5375-1-bp@alien8.de
> [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdUbTNNr16YY1TFe=-uRLjg6yGzgw_RqtAFpyhnOMM5Pvw@mail.gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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