Enable CONFIG_COMPAT in ARMv8 kernel image
Bug #1189912 reported by
James Morrissey
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linaro Linux Baseline |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andrey Konovalov | ||
Bug Description
The kernel binary image available to download from:
http://
... appears to have COMPAT disabled.
It would be useful to enable this for future releases as, at this stage, being able to run ARMv7 binaries as well as ARMv8 ones helps when running in a mixed file-system environment, or when porting code to the newer architecture. In my case I needed to be able to compare two NEON implementations by stepping through with GDB, but this was not possible with the supplied kernel. Obviously I was able to build my own kernel to enable this, but I think this is useful enough to include by default.
| Changed in linaro-linux-baseline: | |
| milestone: | none → 13.06 |
| assignee: | nobody → Andrey Konovalov (andrey-konovalov) |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Revision history for this message
| Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy) wrote Re: [Bug 1189912] Re: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT in ARMv8 kernel image | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Fathi Boudra (fboudra) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in linaro-linux-baseline: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in linaro-linux-baseline: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I agree that enabling CONFIG_COMPAT in vexpress64.conf is a good idea.