Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix
To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:36:48 +0100 (BST)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen),
        tao@acc.umu.se (David Weinehall), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com (David Howells),
        andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton), bcrl@redhat.com (Ben LaHaise),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <20010411032354.A29422@gruyere.muc.suse.de> from "Andi Kleen" at Apr 11, 2001 03:23:54 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> It's currently done this way, ld-linux.so looks in a special "686" path when
> the ELF vector mentions it, otherwise normal path. There is a special 686
> version of glibc and linuxthread. Just it's a very complicated and disk 
> space chewing solution for a simple problem (some distributions are starting 
> to drop support for 386 because of that)

So drop your support for that distribution. I do not see the problem here. Look
at PS/2 support as another example. Supporting the IBM PS/2 machines is
commercially impractical and has no business case. Red Hat won't install on
a PS/2 machine. Debian has different constraints and guess what - Debian 
installs beautifully on a PS/2.

Alan

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