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

Hi Borislav,

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:04 PM Borislav Petkov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:

quoted

I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal
patch to see if anyone screams.

And they're like two for which we need confirmation:

$ git ls-files | grep a.out-core.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/a.out-core.h
arch/m68k/include/asm/a.out-core.h
arch/um/include/asm/a.out-core.h
arch/x86/include/asm/a.out-core.h

um and x86 are clear.

Adding alpha and m68k MLs to Cc.

Thanks!

The oldest binaries I still have lying around (an ext2 ramdisk image,
still used from time to time) are ELF, from just after the a.out to ELF
transition on m68k.

I think it's safe to assume no one still runs a.out binaries on m68k.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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