Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:12:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK |
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Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Hi David, > > actually, this CONFIG_VM86 was there even before the renaming was done. > The main questions (imo) - is there any user space application who uses > these flags? If they are - then even the idea of this patch was a bit bogus, > and I should *not* remove all these VM86 specific flags but better define them > as aliases on flags from processor-flags.h. >
Hard to know. VM86 is only used by a handful of applications (DOSEMU, X.org, others?) but it's hard to know what exactly they are.
The fact that noone hollered when that CONFIG_VM86 went in is probably a good hint that they don't matter, but it's hard to say for sure.
-hpa
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