Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

Andrew Morton wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
Nathan Lynch [off-list ref] wrote:

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A new aux vector entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware.

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OK.

But it conflicts directly with the already-queued
execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch

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It seems to me that most of the patch conflicts are mechanical
and could be merged mechanically.

However I believe that the documentation change to this comment is important:
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 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE (14 + 2) /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
+#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
+  /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
 #endif

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I scratched my head for a while to figure out that AT_NOTELF also was
a subtraction as far as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE was concerned.


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