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Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU

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On 22/07/16 00:48, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On 21/07/16 05:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> This series provides the necessary changes to allow "flat" executable
>>> binaries meant for no-MMU systems to actually run on systems with a MMU.
>>> Also thrown in are various cleanups to binfmt_flat.c.
>>
>> I got to the bottom of why I couldn't run m68k flat binaries on
>> an MMU enabled m68k system. I had to fix the regs setup, with the
>> patch below. With this I can now run flat binaries on my ColdFire
>> MMU enabled system.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
>> This change is completely independent of your patch series so I'll
>> push this separately via the linux-m68k list and my m68knommu git
>> tree.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Who should merge my patch series at this point?

If no-one else wants to carry it I can take it in the m68knommu
git tree. But I would want to be sure everyone is good with it
first.

Alan: are you happy with where this is at?
rmk: ok with the arm flat.h change going via another tree?
Al/David: any comments on this?

(Link to v4 patches here https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/20/508 )

Regards
Greg

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[PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 10/12] binfmt_flat: update libraries' data segment pointer with userspace accessors Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 06/12] binfmt_flat: clean up create_flat_tables() and stack accesses Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 02/12] binfmt_flat: convert printk invocations to their modern form Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 03/12] binfmt_flat: prevent kernel dammage from corrupted executable headers Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 09/12] binfmt_flat: use clear_user() rather than memset() to clear .bss Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 07/12] binfmt_flat: use proper user space accessors with relocs processing code Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 05/12] binfmt_flat: use generic transfer_args_to_stack() Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-20 21:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-07-21 09:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-07-22 09:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-07-22 17:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-07-22 21:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] allow BFLT executables on systems with a MMU Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 21:50 +0200

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