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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org, stephane.eranian@hp.com, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree
Date: 15 Nov 2005 14:40:22 +0100
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:40:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051115134022.GB87706@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132042089.2822.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> ... which is a binary only, proprietary application.

The IA32 emulation part of it is actually shipped in source. 
Somehow they manage to link a binary only object to it though.

> 
> Either way, either the emulation is in the kernel or it's not. If it's
> there (like it is now) it deserves maintenance. If it's not, it should
> be removed from the tree, since the only thing it's otherwise good for
> is potential security holes.

I suppose it's still useful for all current IA64 users (Montecito
is not shipping yet and older CPUs support x86 in hardware) who don't like 
binary only software.

-Andi
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200511142329.jAENTfmS004600@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2005-11-14 23:50 ` + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15  0:04   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-15  0:09     ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15  1:12   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15  8:00     ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15  8:08       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 13:40         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-11-15  9:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-16 10:24     ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15 15:28 Luck, Tony
2005-11-15 15:49 ` Stephane Eranian
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-15 16:58 Luck, Tony

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