[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Isn't vm86 even further limited to just those machines running the Linux
> kernel, not BSD or Solaris or anything else?   (Okay, maybe that doesn't
> take a huge chunk out of the number of machines that can run it, but it
> is replacing one more platform-specific difference with common code.)

Was the vm86 backend disabled by default a few xservers back as well?

Alex