Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:01 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

Roland McGrath [off-list ref] writes:

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There are 32 bits free now.  One can anticipate that reassigning a bit
would come up only after these are exhausted.  With prudent use, this
will take a very long time to happen.  Then the oldest CPU type string
might be retired to reuse its bit.  It seems unlikely that there will
be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have
installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a
kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known.

The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root
filesystem.  You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or
vice-versa.

I agree, I'm pretty dubious here...

Cheers,
Ben.