Re: Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 21:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 18:07 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > For cross building, as far as I can tell one needs to build the tool > > twice - once for the BUILD architecture and once for HOST > > architecture, use one during th

Re: Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 18:07 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > For cross building, as far as I can tell one needs to build the tool > twice - once for the BUILD architecture and once for HOST > architecture, use one during the build and package the other one into > the deb. That's correct and I a

Re: Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 17:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Dimitri! > > On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 17:37 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h > > header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has > > support

Please help testing dropping a.out support from aboot

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Upstream linux kernel has deprecated a.out object format a while ago. However aboot tool still has support for it, which is keeping a.out.h header in the linux kernel. I'm trying to remove it, but to achieve this somebody needs to test that upgraded aboot still works. See details at https://bugs.d

Re: Bug#1059870: aboot: Please help testing dropping a.out.h support

2024-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dimitri! On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 17:37 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > a.out support has been dropped in upstream kernel. However a.out.h > header is still being using by abootimg tool via objstrip.c. It has > support for both a.out image types and ELF. I have blidly dropped > a.out.h support