[PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

[Andreas Schwab]

Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> writes:

> There are 32 bits free now.  One can anticipate that reassigning a bit
> would come up only after these are exhausted.  With prudent use, this
> will take a very long time to happen.  Then the oldest CPU type string
> might be retired to reuse its bit.  It seems unlikely that there will
> be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have
> installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a
> kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known.

The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root
filesystem.  You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or
vice-versa.

Andreas.

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