Re: Userland loader / run time loader

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@Julia.DE>]

> To begin with, excuse my noviceness in this all. Those are LSB binaries,
> whereas the sgi-linux box that I have access to (bogomips.ingenia.com)
> will only run MSB. 
> 
> As written on this list earlier, we don't have bi-endian support.  So,
> which one is it we're going to support to begin with? How is it that Ralf
> is able to execute LSB binaries?
>
> Am I missing something big?

{\grin[evil] Because I've got four types of MIPS boxes running Linux at
home and to two more I've got access.}

I think this also explains why I'm so interested in running biendianess -
I'm running out of diskspace ...

> Also, there was talk of getting merged up with kernel 2.1.4[234].  Any
> luck so far?

Yes.  I haven't merged all the files of my home CVS archive yet into
David's CVS archive from which he sends patches to Linus but the biggest
part is now in sync.

  Ralf