Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string | Date | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:01:14 +0200 |
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
> There are 32 bits free now. One can anticipate that reassigning a bit > would come up only after these are exhausted. With prudent use, this > will take a very long time to happen. Then the oldest CPU type string > might be retired to reuse its bit. It seems unlikely that there will > be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have > installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a > kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known.
The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root filesystem. You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or vice-versa.
Andreas.
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