From: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] remove the last bits of a.out support
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:47:50 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWEL9r5nqyRSfB-t@creeky> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plzzu1w0.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:00:15AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com> writes:
> If it is old code like aboot it may be that it is
> difficult to test any changes. If memory serves you have to flash your
> firmware to change/test aboot.
No, aboot is written to the first sectors of the boot disk. Yes, there
is a special utilty in the aboot tools to write aboot to the boot
sectors and make sure that there is no overlap with the first
partition.
Cheers
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-24 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-23 18:02 [PATCH 0/5] remove the last bits of a.out support Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-23 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] alpha: remove a.out support from tools/objstrip Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-23 18:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] alpha: stop shipping a.out.h uapi headers Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-23 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] m68k: " Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-23 18:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-11-23 18:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: " Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-30 19:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2023-11-23 18:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] uapi: remove a.out.h uapi header Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-24 6:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] remove the last bits of a.out support Eric W. Biederman
2023-11-24 14:36 ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-24 18:06 ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-25 4:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-11-24 20:47 ` Michael Cree [this message]
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