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
next prev 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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