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Lukas Bulwahn 3f10b50829 docs: admin-guide: do not mention the 'run a.out user programs' feature
Running a.out user programs with the latest kernel release is a very rare
and uncommon use case nowadays. The support of a.out user programs is only
remaining for the alpha architecture and is not defined and activated in
the architecture's Kconfig (so even the activation of this support requires
to modify the Kconfig file and not just kernel build configuration).

The discussion on a.out support in 2019 (see Link) shows that the support
of a.out user programs is just remaining for a special corner case from
some (alpha architecture) users.

There is no need to point out and mention this special feature to the
general audience of kernel users. Delete the reference to this historic and
special feature.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgt7M6yA5BJCJo0nF22WgPJnN8CvViL9CAJmd+S+Civ6w@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720041325.15693-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
arch xen: branch for v6.0-rc1b 2022-08-14 09:28:54 -07:00
block block-6.0-2022-08-12 2022-08-13 13:37:36 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
Documentation docs: admin-guide: do not mention the 'run a.out user programs' feature 2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
drivers xen: branch for v6.0-rc1b 2022-08-14 09:28:54 -07:00
fs take care to handle NULL ->proc_lseek() 2022-08-14 15:16:18 -04:00
include radix-tree: replace gfp.h inclusion with gfp_types.h 2022-08-14 13:31:03 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.0-2022-08-13 2022-08-13 13:28:54 -07:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel xen: branch for v6.0-rc1b 2022-08-14 09:28:54 -07:00
lib lib: remove lib/nodemask.c 2022-08-12 09:07:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm - hugetlb_vmemmap cleanups from Muchun Song 2022-08-10 11:18:00 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth, bpf, can and netfilter. 2022-08-11 13:45:37 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.20 / 6.0 2022-08-05 09:41:12 -07:00
scripts RISC-V Patches for the 5.20 Merge Window, Part 2 2022-08-12 18:39:43 -07:00
security + Features 2022-08-10 10:53:22 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.0-rc1 2022-08-12 09:55:32 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v6.0: 2nd batch 2022-08-14 09:22:11 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Actually create debugfs in kvm_create_vm() 2022-08-10 15:08:28 -04:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS xen: branch for v6.0-rc1b 2022-08-14 09:28:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.0-rc1 2022-08-14 15:50:18 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.