Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:26:15 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK |
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[H. Peter Anvin - Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:12:33AM -0700] > 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 >
Actually, being google a bit I found that most of emulators redefine their own equvalence of these flags. So I think we could remain all as is. But if we wanna be sure I could make a patch like this
... #define CF_MASK X86_EFLAGS_CF ...
- Cyrill -
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