Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756547AbYFQL3G (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:29:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752837AbYFQL2y (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:28:54 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:39860 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbYFQL2x (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:28:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:28:36 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: David Woodhouse , Peter Korsgaard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org, dhowells@redhat.com, andi@firstfloor.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" , ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, takata@linux-m32r.org, linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, grundler@parisc-linux.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout Message-ID: <20080617112835.GB4392@parisc-linux.org> References: <1213565555.26255.522.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1213604973-7073-1-git-send-email-jacmet@sunsite.dk> <1213617663.26255.708.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080616121727.GB10854@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1213619214.26255.721.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080617084235.GA20169@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080617084235.GA20169@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 22 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:42:35AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have > > but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make > > sense? > > My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there. It was probably copied from MIPS in the early days of the parisc port and nobody ever b othered to look at it before. There was never an a.out format for parisc. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/