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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-03-09 23:03:42 +0300
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-03-10 19:01:51 +0300
commit19e8b701e258701b52b1e6aea99572518d69a2fb (patch)
tree0571e1b5adeb730ac5b767484814b17e165e1af1 /arch/alpha
parent2722ae9c9419e5727d868c7d1efed28e765fcbbc (diff)
downloadlinux-19e8b701e258701b52b1e6aea99572518d69a2fb.tar.xz
a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on alpha and m68k
There has been repeated discussion on removing a.out support, the most recent was[1]. Having read through a bunch of the discussion it looks like no one has see any reason why we need to keep a.out support. The m68k maintainer has even come out in favor of removing a.out support[2]. At a practical level with only two rarely used architectures building a.out support, it gets increasingly hard to test and to care about. Which means the code will almost certainly bit-rot. Let's see if anyone cares about a.out support on the last two architectures that build it, by disabling the build of the support in Kconfig. If anyone cares, this can be easily reverted, and we can then have a discussion about what it is going to take to support a.out binaries in the long term. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220113160115.5375-1-bp@alien8.de [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdUbTNNr16YY1TFe=-uRLjg6yGzgw_RqtAFpyhnOMM5Pvw@mail.gmail.com Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ilsmdhb5.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdVLyu6LNONJa1QcMGv__bWSCRvVq9haD7=fOm1k5O3Pnw@mail.gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index 4e87783c90ad..14c97acea351 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ config ALPHA
select FORCE_PCI if !ALPHA_JENSEN
select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI
select PCI_SYSCALL if PCI
- select HAVE_AOUT
select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS