Re: Plan needed for switching m68k to 32-bit alignment
On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 17:07 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 25 2024, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > Doing it without a migration path seems worse to me,
> > as this would mean breaking every single existing
> > installation between two kernels, and making it impossible
> > to bisect other issues, and breaking the rule #1.
>
> That's why I didn't change the alignment when I implemented ELF. It
> would have made it impossible to mix an a.out kernel with ELF user
> space, and vice versa.
Thanks for explaining the background. However, it doesn't change the
fact that this is blocking a lot of software now, unfortunately.
Adrian
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