Re: [GIT]: Sparc

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From: David Miller
Date: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 5:06 pm

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:00 -0700 (PDT)


There is no capability loss, the code we have hasn't worked on
anything other than extremely trivial Solaris cases, and that's
when it was working.

Nobody has tested or tried to use it at all for years, and as a result
even something as simple as a modern compiled Solaris binary doing:

	int main(void) { return 0; }

won't even work because things the dynamic linker does are
unsupported.

It's not like I've removed the capability for people to run something
like Oracle/Solaris under Linux, nothing even half-way approaching
that ever worked, and so I just wanted to make that clear :-)
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[GIT]: Sparc, David Miller, (Mon Apr 21, 3:32 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Roland Dreier, (Mon Apr 21, 3:50 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 21, 4:10 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Al Viro, (Mon Apr 21, 4:18 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Al Viro, (Mon Apr 21, 4:25 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 21, 4:32 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, David Miller, (Mon Apr 21, 4:54 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, David Miller, (Mon Apr 21, 5:06 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, David Miller, (Mon Apr 21, 5:16 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 21, 5:20 pm)
Re: [GIT]: Sparc, Al Viro, (Mon Apr 21, 5:26 pm)