[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:53:39 -0400, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:35 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Coopersmith
> > <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> 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.)
> 
> I could have sworn one of the BSDs had implemented a vm86 syscall, but I
> can't find any reference to it now.  It certainly doesn't seem to exist
> under Solaris.

FreeBSD had one.  Trying to use it was a huge disaster, emulation was
totally the way to go.
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