From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support from ia64.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:31:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocjkmexa.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b706604317715a28@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com>
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:
> This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
> Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
> this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
> to use the IA32-EL software emulation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reading old email ... one should note that some of that code
lives on in the x86-64 32bit emulation. I copied some code
(not all, other was written from scratch or from other archs)
from ia64 when I did that.
R.I.P.
-And
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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2010-02-08 19:29 [PATCH] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support from ia64 Luck, Tony
2010-02-20 9:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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