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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