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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Jan 15 2022 - 06:37:53 EST


On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I mean that I can rip it out on m68k.
> >
> > Who's gonna take care of alpha?
>
> I'm sceptical anyone would:
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/alpha/
> Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
> Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
>
> which leaves me. I could give it a try.

Well, on that old thread from 2019 people expressed the wish to be able
to run a.out binaries on Alpha. Let's see whether that has changed in
the meantime.

/me CCs them.

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