Yes, without the patches, the ELF bits are very intel-centric.
> So, I downloaded the patches from azstarnet, and built an elf-aware kernel.
> (The patches I found apply against 2.0.7, but the latest kernel I've found is
> 2.0.10 -- are the latest patches on azstarnet, or should I look elsewhere
> for newer ones?)
No, the 2.0.7-axp patches are the most recent. I don't remember
seeing anthing in the 8-10 patches that would conflict, so it ought
to patch up just fine.
> Just applying the patch doesn't seem to work, but I noticed a "386" directory
> was created alongside my "linux" directory in /usr/src.
Yes, that's because you used -p0 in /usr/src, instead of -p1 in
/usr/src/linux.
> So, what other than the ELF binary format do the patches fix?
There's bits in there to do 64-bit filesystem accesses, some
Qlogic ISP SCSI driver patches, kernel debugging, and header file
cleanups for glibc,
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