Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

[Karl Kiniger <karl.kiniger@med.ge.com>]

On Tue 080122, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> 
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently
> > > in mainline and that only this patch would break it.
> >
> > I cannot imagine what brings you to that conclusion.  Suffice to say 
> > you are entirely and inexplicably wrong.
> 
> it should be very easy for you to prove me wrong then. I've got a very 
> simple question: please tell me, how do i run a binary compiled for an 
> iBCS2 platform under Linux v2.6.23?


at least the Changelog for ibcs-3.4.tar.gz found on

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13130

says:

2007-10-11  Alex <agon04@users.sourceforge.net>

        ibcs-3.4

        * support for Kernel 2.6.23 added
        * support for SUSE AppArmor


I did not try this one myself.

Karl

> 
> I've got plenty of v2.6.23-running testsystems, tell me, if i wanted, 
> how could i run any iBCS2 binary on them? All i see is a massive, 
> 2.4-kernels-only patchkit:
> 
>    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/linux-abi/v2.4/
> 
> which external patch-kit was not picked up by major distros and which 
> was never integrated into the upstream kernel either. iBCS2 support in 
> Linux 2.6 simply does not exist.
> 
> 	Ingo
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