Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 3/5] UML - Clean up tt mode remapping of UML binary

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:05:19AM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2005 22:08, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > From Al Viro - this turns the tt mode remapping of the binary into arch
> > code.
> NACK at all, definitely, don't apply this one please. This patch:
> 
> 1) On i386 does not fix the problem it was supposed to fix when I originately 
> sent the first version (i.e. avoiding to create a .thread_private section to 
> allow linking against NPTL glibc). It's done on x86_64 and forgot on i386.

True.  i386 still assumes non-NPTL (as it is on the box I'm working on -
such setups *do* exist).

> 2) Splitting the linker script for subarchs is definitely not needed.

Per-subarch - perhaps not.  Per-glibc-type - definitely needed.

> 3) This removes the fix (done through objcopy -G switcheroo) to a link time 
> conflict happening on some weird glibc combinations.

*What* link-time conflict?  We don't link libc into switcheroo anymore.
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