Re: Plan needed for switching m68k to 32-bit alignment

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.m68k,gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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.

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