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From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"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: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:38:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANiq72=Hvvw7QCKMquWmefKz1OLUrYoDZUHRT2XKUEwTfsLv4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdU76V=p8GLqVdChx+Sa_aPZ9BMCnnzmzWonqEq4Xe+LEQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:46 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long
> gone...

As usual with these things, people can still use older Linux releases
for a very long time. If they really need it (e.g. commercially), they
have the reference code and can bring it up to speed again relatively
easily. It is not as if they have no way to submit it back again.

Cheers,
Miguel

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-14 18:38 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
2019-03-14 18:38                                       ` Miguel Ojeda [this message]
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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