On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 17:07 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 25 2024, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > Doing it without a migration path seems worse to me, > > as this would mean breaking every single existing > > installation between two kernels, and making it impossible > > to bisect other issues, and breaking the rule #1. > > That's why I didn't change the alignment when I implemented ELF. It > would have made it impossible to mix an a.out kernel with ELF user > space, and vice versa.
Thanks for explaining the background. However, it doesn't change the fact that this is blocking a lot of software now, unfortunately. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
