Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

Miguel Ojeda
2019-03-14T18:38:40Z

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:46 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long
> gone...

As usual with these things, people can still use older Linux releases
for a very long time. If they really need it (e.g. commercially), they
have the reference code and can bring it up to speed again relatively
easily. It is not as if they have no way to submit it back again.

Cheers,
Miguel