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Date:   Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:37:40 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I mean that I can rip it out on m68k.
> > 
> > Who's gonna take care of alpha?
> 
> I'm sceptical anyone would:
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/alpha/
> Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
> Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> (odd fixer:ALPHA PORT)
> 
> which leaves me. I could give it a try.

Well, on that old thread from 2019 people expressed the wish to be able
to run a.out binaries on Alpha. Let's see whether that has changed in
the meantime.

/me CCs them.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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