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

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:24:15 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

How about I send John's patch Linuswards right now?