[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:01 +0100
> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com>
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:15:56PM +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:32:54PM +0200, ext Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > vm86 has been defaulted off since 1.6, and is still a terrible idea to
> > > actually use.  Time to say goodbye.
> > 
> > My empirical evidences say that we can't do this. 
> 
> The vm86 code is guaranteed to fail in certain circumstances. The most 
> obvious is anything where the BIOS tries to access address space above 
> 3GB. We're better off killing it and figuring out where the bugs in 
> x86emu are.

How about fixing those bugs before killing it?