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Subject: Re: Having trouble adding miscellaneous binary formats
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 05:27:31 +0200
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On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 15:32 -0400, Mathu Xu wrote:
> After some digging we found that in kernel modules
> <https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/linux-lts/lts.x86_64.config=
>
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is set to 'm', but I found that some other
> architectures<https://github.com/search?q=3Drepo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux+CONFI=
G_BINFMT_MISC&type=3Dcode>
> set it to 'y', does this change things?

Hi,

"m" is for a loadable module
"y" is for the module build into the kernel

You can load the module on demand by running

# modprobe module_name

or at startup.

"/etc/init.d/modules loads all modules specified in /etc/modules and
/(etc|run|usr/lib|lib)/modules-load.d/*.conf"
  - https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Architecture#Boot_Process

Regards,
Ralf