Hi Linus,
I'm Jon, and I just bought my first Alpha. What can I say, I was late to
the party, and I probably need to get out more. Actually, I wanted it
for its memory consistency model, or (some would say) lack thereof.
On 3/11/19 3:03 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:46 AM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long
> gone...
As usual with these things, people can still use older Linux releases
for a very long time. If they really need it (e.g. commercially), they
have the
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape
> > Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version.
> > Doing this today to connect to the open
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:11:55PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:47 PM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > > Linus Torvalds writes:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > > > We don't have any
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape
>> Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version.
>> Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably
>> a bit
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:47 PM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds writes:
> > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
> > >
> > > ECOFF _is_ a.out
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:47 PM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Linus Torvalds writes:
>> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
>> >
>> > ECOFF _is_ a.out as far as Linux is concerned.
>> >
>>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape
> Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version.
> Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably
> a bit pointless, but there may be other use
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:47 PM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >>
> >> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
> >
> > ECOFF _is_ a.out as far as Linux is concerned.
> >
> > So Linux basically treats ECOFF
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:47 PM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >>
> >> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
> >
> > ECOFF _is_ a.out as far as Linux is concerned.
> >
> > So Linux basically treats
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>
>> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
>
> ECOFF _is_ a.out as far as Linux is concerned.
>
> So Linux basically treats ECOFF as "regular a.out with just some
> header extensions".
>
> We don't
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> The latest version I have is 5.1, and that uses ECOFF.
ECOFF _is_ a.out as far as Linux is concerned.
So Linux basically treats ECOFF as "regular a.out with just some
header extensions".
We don't have any specific support for ECOFF.
I
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner 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
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> If that's the case then we'd have to keep a.out alive for
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> 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.
If that's the case then we'd have to keep a.out alive for alpha, since
that's the OSF/1
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner 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,
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:46 PM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner 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
Hi Linus!
On 3/11/19 7:40 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So this attached patch does not compile on alpha, but it's been many
> many years since I had an alpha to test with, so I'm stuck.
Michael Cree (CC'ed) has several Alpha servers running which are also used
for building Debian packages and
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 03:40:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_readv, unsigned long, fd,
> const struct iovec __user *, vector, unsigned long, count)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT
> - if (unlikely(personality(current->personality) == PER_OSF4))
> -
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner 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
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:04 AM Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal
> > patch to see if anyone screams.
>
> And they're like two for which we need confirmation:
>
> $
Hi Borislav,
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:04 PM Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal
> > patch to see if anyone screams.
>
> And they're like two for which we need
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal
> patch to see if anyone screams.
And they're like two for which we need confirmation:
$ git ls-files | grep a.out-core.h
arch/alpha/include/asm/a.out-core.h
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