[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Wed Jul 28 09:55:53 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:29:50AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> 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.)

There's no fundamental reason for it to be, but I'll admit that I never 
actually went to the extent of checking whether there was support code 
for non-Linux.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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