From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make aout executables work again
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:24:55 +0100
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On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:50, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > I already fixed this in a different way -- just use the stack
> > trampoline on a.out
> >
> > Can you double check
> >
> > ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/aout-no-vdso
> >
> > works for you?
> 
> Is there a reason why we specifically want to make a distinction
> between binfmts having and not having VDSOs and do we want aout to
> have the possibility of NOT having VDSO when a) It used to have it
> unconditionally b) nothing special is needed in arch or common code to
> have it and c) Not letting have it requires special arch-specific
> code* ?

I mainly did it this way because it was quite a lot simpler.
I'm not worrying too much about other strange binfmts to be honest
 
> [*] I see the patch handles i386 and x86_64 - but I am not sure if
> something similar will be needed for the other arches to allow aout
> executables in absence of VDSO (powerpc, sh).

Neither powerpc nor sh support a.out.

-Andi
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