Le 12/12/12 19:04, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support and thus zaps quite a
bit of complexity:
Btw, I think we should probably at least consider taking this one step
further, and remove the dear old FPU em
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:24 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> 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.
Ok. It sounds like the code actually works despite lack of testing,
and it clearly hasn't been
On Mit, 2012-12-12 at 11:00 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
[...]
> There were a *bunch* of embedded 486 clones made, some still in
> production as far as I know, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them
> lacked FPU. I guess we'll see.
And there is an x86 emulator written in Javascript at
http
H. Peter Anvin zytor.com> writes:
> On 12/12/2012 10:04 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Or do people still use the 486SX?
> There were a *bunch* of embedded 486 clones made, some still in
> production as far as I know, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them
> lacked FPU. I guess we'll see
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 touc
On 12/12/2012 10:04 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support and thus zaps quite a
bit of complexity:
Btw, I think we should probably at least consider taking this one step
further, and remove the dear old FPU em
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support and thus zaps quite a
> bit of complexity:
Btw, I think we should probably at least consider taking this one step
further, and remove the dear old FPU emulation support too. Remove
CONFIG_MATH_EMULA
Linus,
Please consider pulling the latest x86-nuke386-for-linus git
tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
x86-nuke386-for-linus
HEAD: 11af32b69ef7ee64c7d8848cad71a6f3749d9e37 x86, 386 removal: Document
Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported
This tree removes
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