[SRU][K/Unstable][PATCH 0/1] Disable CONFIG_CONFIG on RISC-V
Dimitri John Ledkov 🏳️🌈
dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com
Tue Jun 28 08:42:01 UTC 2022
Title of the email, and hence the git commit message online, has a
typpo. s/CONFIG_CONFIG/CONFIG_COMPAT/ ?
On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 09:00, Emil Renner Berthing
<emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> [Impact]
>
> * The 5.19 kernel adds RISC-V support for running 32bit binaries on
> 64bit systems, but only with hardware support.
> So far no chips have been released that support it and it's not even
> implemented in upstream Qemu. Also neither Ubuntu nor any other
> mainstream Linux distro ships 32bit binaries, so this enables a
> bunch of code that will most likely never be used.
>
> [Test Plan]
>
> * Setting CONFIG_COMPAT=n just disables a feature that was added in
> 5.19, so should have no impact on userspace compared to earlier
> kernels.
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> * This was implemented by T-Head (Alibaba) so will most likely be
> supported by one of their future designs. If it turns out to be
> useful on these cores we can always enable it later.
>
> Emil Renner Berthing (1):
> UBUNTU: [Config] Disable CONFIG_COMPAT on RISC-V
>
> debian.master/config/amd64/config.common.amd64 | 1 +
> debian.master/config/annotations | 6 +++---
> debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64 | 1 +
> debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu | 1 -
> debian.master/config/ppc64el/config.common.ppc64el | 1 +
> debian.master/config/riscv64/config.common.riscv64 | 2 +-
> debian.master/config/s390x/config.common.s390x | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.36.1
>
>
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