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

On Tue, 2024-10-29 at 07:57 +1300, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Arnd,
> 
> On 25/10/24 22:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I also expect that a lot of users (of m68k kernels) are
> > never going to get the benefits as they are already stuck on
> > older userspace because of added bloat in new software
> > releases. I assume you have better understanding than me
> > of what m68k hardware is commonly used these days, and
> > how constrained that is in practice.
> 
> I second that - currently bisecting to find out what makes my extremely 
> RAM constrained m68k system fail to boot or run anything past 6.9-rc4 
> (sysvinit, not systemd).

Should extremely RAM-constrained systems be the reference target for m68k?

> Much as I appreciate Adrian's efforts to keep up with user space 
> development, I won't be in a position to help with an ABI change.

Thanks, I will then just do it myself with brute force or drop the port.

Adrian

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