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From: Giulio <giulioo@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:20:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fn4qjc$fl5$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080120072922.GA21047@one.firstfloor.org

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

>> I think I do.  You appear to be arguing that small businesses, such as
>> paint shops or garages, could re-install iBCS2 support. 
>
>You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently
>in mainline and that only this patch would break it. That's not 
>the case.
>
>It's a significant patchkit that was only available in 2.4 and is
>now missing a lot of infrastructure and would probably be significant

AFAIK ibcs is fully functional in 2.6 via external modules (no patch
needed).
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/linux-abi/ibcs-3_4.tgz

If your proposed change goes in, I think a patch will be necessary (ie no
more kmod-ibcs-.....)
-- 
giulioo@pobox.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19  4:59 [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  2:27 ` David Newall
2008-01-20  3:11   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  4:46     ` David Newall
2008-01-20  5:18       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  5:33         ` David Newall
2008-01-20  5:55           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  6:23             ` David Newall
2008-01-20  7:29               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21  1:37                 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 10:24                   ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:06                     ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:52                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-23  8:48                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 14:12                       ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-23 14:24                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-24 17:06                           ` David Newall
2008-01-22 11:12                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 12:42                     ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:13                     ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:49                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24 17:01                         ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:01                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:04                         ` David Newall
2008-01-24 17:24                           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:55                             ` David Newall
2008-01-24 18:14                               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-25  2:14                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-25  5:12                                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-25 16:40                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 19:51                               ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25  2:17                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 20:37                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25  2:16                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:50                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 17:08                         ` David Newall
2008-01-22 13:20                 ` Giulio [this message]
2008-01-20 13:06           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-20 13:43             ` David Newall
2008-01-20 13:51               ` Alan Cox
2008-01-25 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar

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