Hi Dimitri! On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 17:37 +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h > header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has > support for both a.out image types and ELF. I have blidly dropped > a.out.h support and made ELF support mandatory in > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231123180246.750674-2-dimitri.led...@canonical.com/ > but I have no way to build it for alpha or test if everything still > works. Upgrades, installed systems, and cd-boot. > > Could you please consider the attached NMU, build it and test it, and > let me know if everything still works. Cause then a.out.h header can > be removed from upstream linux kernel on all architectures.
I have actually already looked into patching aboot myself to deal with the aout.h issue since I want to make the bootloader fully cross-buildable [1]. I will most likely just copy the relevant definitions out of aout.h, both the generic and the alpha-specific stuff in order to both be able to drop reliance on aout.h in the kernel as well as make the package fully cross- buildable. I would also prefer to get all relevant changes upstreamed. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://github.com/mattst88/aboot/issues/5 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
