From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932109Ab2LLWY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:24:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53826 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755605Ab2LLWY1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:24:27 -0500 Message-ID: <50C9040C.20708@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:24:12 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8 References: <20121211111026.GA26507@gmail.com> <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.