On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM Måns Rullgård <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> I'm not aware of a reason to keep a.out support on alpha. > > > > Hmm. I was looking at removing a.out support entirely, but it's > > actually fairly incestuous on alpha. > > > > For example, arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c very much has some a.out > > support in it. Maybe it can just be removed entirely. > > > > There's also an a.out.h include in arch/alpha/kernel/binfmt_loader.c. > > > > Finally, note that CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT also no longer makes sense > > without a.out support. > > Anyone running an Alpha machine likely also has some old OSF/1 binaries > they may wish to use. It would be a shame to remove this feature, IMO. Tru64 5.1 uses ECOFF binaries, I believe. Do you know when OSF/1 / Digital UNIX / Tru64 switched from a.out to ECOFF?
