Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:36:48 +0100 (BST)


> It's currently done this way, ld-linux.so looks in a special "686" path when
> the ELF vector mentions it, otherwise normal path. There is a special 686
> version of glibc and linuxthread. Just it's a very complicated and disk
> space chewing solution for a simple problem (some distributions are starting
> to drop support for 386 because of that)

So drop your support for that distribution. I do not see the problem here. Look
at PS/2 support as another example. Supporting the IBM PS/2 machines is
commercially impractical and has no business case. Red Hat won't install on
a PS/2 machine. Debian has different constraints and guess what - Debian
installs beautifully on a PS/2.

Alan

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