Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:04:07 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8 |
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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_EMULATION and all of arch/x86/math-emu, along with a lot of small special cases.
Or do people still use the 486SX?
Now, the math emulation hasn't been all that fundamentally problematic (compared to lack of xadd etc), but it does result in some complexities in exception handling and ptrace (grep for HAVE_HWFP or "hard_math" or a number of other magic things). None of which have likely been tested at all in the last ten years, so who knows if it actually *works* or not.
Maybe somebody could try booting with "no387". Does it actually work?
Linus
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