[PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 21 13:24:15 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 13:28 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> John Reiser wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
> > > Nathan Lynch <ntl at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >> [snip]
> > >> A new aux vector entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware.
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > OK.
> > > 
> > > But it conflicts directly with the already-queued
> > > execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch
> 
> Okay, I can rebase on -mm.

Andrew, we have one other patch (the powerpc bits) on top of that one.
Do you want to carry both in -mm on top of John's patch ? We would like
that in .27 though, I don't know what your merge plans are for John's
patch.

Cheers,
Ben.





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