From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [5/5] move_pages: 32bit support (i386,x86_64 and ia64) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:18:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Luck, Tony" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Hugh Dickins , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Lee Schermerhorn , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki List-ID: > If it does not work then remove it now. It still works ... it just isn't complete as most of the syscalls added in the past 18 months haven't been included. > Are there any users left? I've no idea. Two OSDs have been shipping the Intel s/w emulator for a while now, one installs it by default. So the number of users is probably diminishing. When people upgrade to Montecito, s/w emulation is the only option, which will further reduce the user population. > I vaguely remember some BIOS code having to be executed in ia32 mode in > order to make some device drives work? > If that is the case then we cannot drop ia32 support at all. The kernel doesn't handle BIOS code execution ... so the value of CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT makes no difference to this. -Tony If this thread continues, I'll drop all the innocent bystanders from the Cc: list and just leave linux-ia64 from future replies. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org