[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Jul 29 10:53:39 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:35 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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.)

I could have sworn one of the BSDs had implemented a vm86 syscall, but I
can't find any reference to it now.  It certainly doesn't seem to exist
under Solaris.

> Was the vm86 backend disabled by default a few xservers back as well?

Yep.  Which I noted in the original patch email, in fact.

- ajax
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