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    ANDROID: binder: remove 32-bit binder interface. · 1190b4e3
    Martijn Coenen authored
    New devices launching with Android P need to use the 64-bit
    binder interface, even on 32-bit SoCs [0].
    
    This change removes the Kconfig option to select the 32-bit
    binder interface. We don't think this will affect existing
    userspace for the following reasons:
    1) The latest Android common tree is 4.14, so we don't
       believe any Android devices are on kernels >4.14.
    2) Android devices launch on an LTS release and stick with
       it, so we wouldn't expect devices running on <= 4.14 now
       to upgrade to 4.17 or later. But even if they did, they'd
       rebuild the world (kernel + userspace) anyway.
    3) Other userspaces like 'anbox' are already using the
       64-bit interface.
    
    Note that this change doesn't remove the 32-bit UAPI
    itself; the reason for that is that Android userspace
    always uses the latest UAPI headers from upstream, and
    userspace retains 32-bit support for devices that are
    upgrading. This will be removed as well in 2-3 years,
    at which point we can remove the code from the UAPI
    as well.
    
    Finally, this change introduces build errors on archs where
    64-bit get_user/put_user is not supported, so make binder
    unavailable on m68k (which wouldn't want it anyway).
    
    [0]: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/build/+/595193
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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