[RFC PATCH v2 02/13] x86/um: nommu: elf loader for fdpic

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2024-11-13 at 09:19 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > > > -       depends on ARM || ((M68K || RISCV || SUPERH || XTENSA) && !MMU)
> > > > +       depends on ARM || ((M68K || RISCV || SUPERH || UML || XTENSA) && !MMU)
> > > 
> > > s/UML/X86/?
> > 
> > I guess the fdpic loader can be used to X86, but this patchset only
> > adds UML to be able to select it.  I intended to add UML into nommu
> > family.
> 
> While currently x86-nommu is supported for UML only, this is really
> x86-specific. I still hope UML will get support for other architectures
> one day, at which point a dependency on UML here will become wrong...
> 

X86 isn't set for UML, X64_32 and X64_64 are though.

Given that the no-MMU UM support even is 64-bit only, that probably
should then really be (UML && X86_64).

But it already has !MMU, so can't be selected otherwise, and it seems
that non-X86 UML 

johannes