20 Apr
2022
20 Apr
'22
8:04 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 7:47 PM Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org wrote:
Yeah, I was trying to understand why systems were using binfmt_flat and not binfmt_elf, given the mention of elf2flat -- is there really such a large kernel memory footprint savings to be had from removing binfmt_elf?
I think the main reason for using flat binaries is nommu support on m68k, xtensa and risc-v. The regular binfmt_elf support requires an MMU, and the elf-fdpic variant is only available for arm and sh at this point (the other nommu architectures got removed over time).
Arnd