From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:09:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427100901.GC3891@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480F7C11.8040302@zytor.com>
On Wed 2008-04-23 11:12:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >
> >Hi David,
> >
> >actually, this CONFIG_VM86 was there even before the
> >renaming was done.
> >The main questions (imo) - is there any user space
> >application who uses
> >these flags? If they are - then even the idea of this
> >patch was a bit bogus,
> >and I should *not* remove all these VM86 specific flags
> >but better define them
> >as aliases on flags from processor-flags.h.
> >
>
> Hard to know. VM86 is only used by a handful of
> applications (DOSEMU, X.org, others?) but it's hard to
> know what exactly they are.
I believe vbetool and thus s2ram uses vm86, too.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200804181856.m3IIuKd4007403@hera.kernel.org>
2008-04-23 2:17 ` x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK David Woodhouse
2008-04-23 4:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 4:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 18:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 22:48 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-24 3:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-24 5:31 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-24 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 8:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-27 10:09 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-04-27 11:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-27 11:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-04-27 15:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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