[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

[Alan Coopersmith]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:47:05PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>> Which makes me seriously doubt that these bugs can be found and fixed
>> fast enough such that users won't be affected.
> 
> If vm86 were an option on anything other than 32-bit x86 I'd have 
> sympathy with retaining it, but it's not a useful fallback if only runs 
> on a tiny fraction of today's machines.

Isn't vm86 even further limited to just those machines running the Linux
kernel, not BSD or Solaris or anything else?   (Okay, maybe that doesn't
take a huge chunk out of the number of machines that can run it, but it
is replacing one more platform-specific difference with common code.)

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