From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:24:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C9040C.20708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com>
On 12/12/2012 11:00 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> It builds and boots, at least. I'm currently installing Red Hat 4.1 in
> a VM so I can test to see if it does anything more than that. It
> doesn't get in the way the same case the old 386 bits does, so I'm more
> reluctant to remove it, but it does touch a lot of paths.
>
Well... it turns out to boot and run Red Hat 4.1 just fine (using qemu
-cpu 486 and the no387 option) once I changed /dev/hda1 to /dev/sda1.
I'm actually kind of impressed.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-12 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 11:10 [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8 Ingo Molnar
2012-12-12 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-12 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-12 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-12-13 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 11:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-12-13 12:13 ` Thorsten Glaser
2012-12-13 16:23 ` Florian Fainelli
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