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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:21:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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Hi Boris,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 8:12 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Quoting myself (do I need a canned response for this? ;-):
> >    "I think it's safe to assume no one still runs a.out binaries on m68k."
>
> I remember now that I've looked at the thread from back then but what
> are you trying to say with your quote?
>
> Do you wanna see another patch which rips out a.out support from m68k?
>
> I could do one ontop but besides build-testing I can't test any other
> way on m68k...
>
> :-)

I mean that I can rip it out on m68k.

Who's gonna take care of alpha?

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