[PATCH 05/12] drm: drop i386 verification

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 08:26:40 PDT 2014


Linux doesn't run on i386, anymore. See:

    commit d55c5a93db2d5fa95f233ab153f594365d95b777
    Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
    Date:   Wed Nov 28 11:50:24 2012 -0800

        x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_CMPXCHG

        All 486+ CPUs support CMPXCHG, so remove the fallback 386 support
        code.

Furthermore, as the commit-message states, all 486+ CPUs support the
CMPXCHG instruction and thus even legacy DRM can run fine.

Drop the now superfluous "x86 == 3" check.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
index fb81d1c..a402061 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
@@ -210,10 +210,6 @@ out_unlock:
  */
 static int drm_cpu_valid(void)
 {
-#if defined(__i386__)
-	if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 3)
-		return 0;	/* No cmpxchg on a 386 */
-#endif
 #if defined(__sparc__) && !defined(__sparc_v9__)
 	return 0;		/* No cmpxchg before v9 sparc. */
 #endif
-- 
2.0.2



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