From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760143AbYAVNLe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752518AbYAVNL0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:26 -0500 Received: from ext-ch1gw-9.online-age.net ([64.37.194.17]:33781 "EHLO ext-ch1gw-9.online-age.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752484AbYAVNLY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:24 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1697 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:22 EST Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:42:55 +0100 From: Karl Kiniger To: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Newall , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080122124255.GA22308@wszip-kinigka.euro.med.ge.com> References: <4792B191.2060801@davidnewall.com> <20080120031153.GB6275@one.firstfloor.org> <4792D221.1010704@davidnewall.com> <20080120051822.GB19784@one.firstfloor.org> <4792DD22.4070902@davidnewall.com> <20080120055544.GB19861@one.firstfloor.org> <4792E8E2.1090307@davidnewall.com> <20080120072922.GA21047@one.firstfloor.org> <4793F775.6090403@davidnewall.com> <20080122111205.GA25090@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080122111205.GA25090@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-GEHealthcare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-GEHealthcare-MailScanner-From: karl.kiniger@med.ge.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 080122, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * David Newall wrote: > > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently > > > in mainline and that only this patch would break it. > > > > I cannot imagine what brings you to that conclusion. Suffice to say > > you are entirely and inexplicably wrong. > > it should be very easy for you to prove me wrong then. I've got a very > simple question: please tell me, how do i run a binary compiled for an > iBCS2 platform under Linux v2.6.23? at least the Changelog for ibcs-3.4.tar.gz found on http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13130 says: 2007-10-11 Alex ibcs-3.4 * support for Kernel 2.6.23 added * support for SUSE AppArmor I did not try this one myself. Karl > > I've got plenty of v2.6.23-running testsystems, tell me, if i wanted, > how could i run any iBCS2 binary on them? All i see is a massive, > 2.4-kernels-only patchkit: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/linux-abi/v2.4/ > > which external patch-kit was not picked up by major distros and which > was never integrated into the upstream kernel either. iBCS2 support in > Linux 2.6 simply does not exist. > > Ingo > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Karl Kiniger mailto:karl.kiniger@med.ge.com GE Medical Systems Kretztechnik GmbH & Co OHG Tiefenbach 15 Tel: (++43) 7682-3800-710 Voip(GE): 1662 710 A-4871 Zipf Austria Fax: (++43) 7682-3800-47 C: +43 6991 3800 710