[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 13:54:31 PDT 2010
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:47:05PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Which makes me seriously doubt that these bugs can be found and fixed
> fast enough such that users won't be affected.
If vm86 were an option on anything other than 32-bit x86 I'd have
sympathy with retaining it, but it's not a useful fallback if only runs
on a tiny fraction of today's machines. Maintaining it requires extra
abstraction and makes it harder to fix the x86emu bugs, and while some
of the x86emu bugs aren't trivial to fix the vm86 limitations are
*impossible* to fix.
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