From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbZE1ASu (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757895AbZE1ASm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52149 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758665AbZE1ASl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:16:31 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Mundt Cc: jw@emlix.com, os@emlix.com, dhowells@redhat.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, cooloney@kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, vapier.adi@gmail.com, gerg@uclinux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3] flat: fix data sections alignment Message-Id: <20090527171631.ed4de515.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090528000801.GA30594@linux-sh.org> References: <20090310073350.GH10393@linux-sh.org> <20090402135343.d18d17a5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090409142553.GA3330@emlix.com> <20090505140847.GB25409@emlix.com> <20090527114955.GA23343@emlix.com> <20090527134357.601c3c87.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090528000801.GA30594@linux-sh.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:08:02 +0900 Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 13:49:56 +0200 > > Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:08:47PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:25:53PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:53:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Paul and Mike had complaints. Paul acked the last revision. Mike? > > > > > We need this for upstream to compile on our configuration. > > > > Who is Mike? > > > > (A pox upon email clients which strip real names) > > > > > > Can we get this merged? Nobody complained. > > > > > > > > > > > > What are the plans on this now? I assume it drowned in other changes... > > > Is it too late to get this in .30 now? > > > > The patch had a fairly shaky start and it's been unclear to me that > > everyone is happy with it and has tested it. > > > > arch/arm/include/asm/flat.h | 3 -- > > arch/blackfin/include/asm/flat.h | 1 > > arch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h | 1 > > arch/m32r/include/asm/flat.h | 1 > > arch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h | 1 > > arch/sh/include/asm/flat.h | 1 > > fs/binfmt_flat.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > > > > I guess ARM is the major architecture amongst that lot. Have Russell > > and co had a decent look through this? > > > The problem here is that the ARM nommu people seem to have disappeared > shortly after getting their changes merged. I see no activity within the > kernel for ARM nommu since 2006. heh, OK. Oskar touched it last, so he's now ARM nommu maintainer. > Given that xtensa has a need for this in > its nommu port and people are working on it presently, there certainly > has to be a limit to how far we go in allowing an outdated and > effectively abandoned port from blocking progress. Perhaps Russell has a > more optimistic outlook on the future of ARM nommu, though. > > The only architectures in that list presently active in the linux nommu > space in terms of development, support, and shipping products, are > blackfin, m68k, and sh. This too has been the case for years. Microblaze > has recently been added (which will also need the same change to its > flat.h), and it seems the xtensa folks are at least presently willing to > do more than the bare minimum to keep their port limping along. OK, thanks, I'll send it in to Linus this week.