Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754019AbYGGKBZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:01:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751272AbYGGKBR (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:01:17 -0400 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:38537 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbYGGKBQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:01:16 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Roland McGrath Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, Nathan Lynch , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string References: <20080703234140.GC9594@localdomain> <20080704021929.5E9EF1541F5@magilla.localdomain> <1215409693.8970.79.camel@pasglop> <20080707061811.19989154246@magilla.localdomain> <1215411800.8970.91.camel@pasglop> <20080707063522.5FE55154246@magilla.localdomain> <20080707093151.8798A154246@magilla.localdomain> X-Yow: I think my CAREER is RUINED!! Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:01:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080707093151.8798A154246@magilla.localdomain> (Roland McGrath's message of "Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:31:51 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 26 Roland McGrath writes: > There are 32 bits free now. One can anticipate that reassigning a bit > would come up only after these are exhausted. With prudent use, this > will take a very long time to happen. Then the oldest CPU type string > might be retired to reuse its bit. It seems unlikely that there will > be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have > installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a > kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known. The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root filesystem. You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or vice-versa. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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/