From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>, "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
"Matt Turner" <mattst88@gmail.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Alan Cox" <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
"Linux API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Anton Ivanov" <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
linux-alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:44:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdU76V=p8GLqVdChx+Sa_aPZ9BMCnnzmzWonqEq4Xe+LEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj3v41CWH+3ry3+vrkjAEcyGojtevpsZDbiXVvpv1nTkA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape
> > Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version.
> > Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably
> > a bit pointless, but there may be other use cases.
>
> The _really_ main version was that I decided to make my life easier
> for the initial alpha port by trying to run basic (tested) OSF/1
> binaries directly.
>
> Netscape may have been one of the binaries people actually ended up
> using, but it's probably not a reason any more, since the internet has
> moved past that anyway.
Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long
gone...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-12 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-01 23:57 a.out coredumping: fix or delete? Jann Horn
2019-03-03 1:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-05 9:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 12:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-03-05 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2019-03-05 14:59 ` [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 15:17 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-03-05 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05 16:30 ` Jann Horn
2019-03-05 17:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05 18:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 18:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-06 15:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-10 21:37 ` Matt Turner
2019-03-10 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-10 23:19 ` Al Viro
2019-03-11 7:20 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-03-11 11:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-11 16:26 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 18:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 19:47 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 20:50 ` Matt Turner
2019-03-11 21:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-11 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 22:12 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-12 8:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2019-03-14 18:38 ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-03-11 22:06 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 22:11 ` Matt Turner
2019-03-12 6:38 ` Michael Cree
2019-04-16 3:19 ` Jon Masters
2019-03-11 18:58 ` Matt Turner
2019-03-06 16:55 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-06 17:52 ` [PATCH] fs: binfmt: mark aout as broken Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-06 12:25 ` a.out coredumping: fix or delete? Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-06 14:11 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-03-06 16:52 ` Alan Cox
2019-03-06 17:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
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