From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758562AbYDVAGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757604AbYDVAGk (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:40 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60505 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757564AbYDVAGj (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080421.170640.181023820.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080421.153231.108090227.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:00 -0700 (PDT) > Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto > standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real > capability loss. There is no capability loss, the code we have hasn't worked on anything other than extremely trivial Solaris cases, and that's when it was working. Nobody has tested or tried to use it at all for years, and as a result even something as simple as a modern compiled Solaris binary doing: int main(void) { return 0; } won't even work because things the dynamic linker does are unsupported. It's not like I've removed the capability for people to run something like Oracle/Solaris under Linux, nothing even half-way approaching that ever worked, and so I just wanted to make that clear :-)