Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

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To: David Newall <davidn@...>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 3:29 am

> I think I do.  You appear to be arguing that small businesses, such as

You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently
in mainline and that only this patch would break it. That's not 
the case.

It's a significant patchkit that was only available in 2.4 and is
now missing a lot of infrastructure and would probably be significant
non-trivial work to forward port. Now if someone does that work
they can as well readd the few hunks I'm removing here.

-Andi
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[PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jan 19, 12:59 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 8:17 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sat Jan 19, 10:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jan 19, 11:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 12:46 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 1:18 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 1:33 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Sun Jan 20, 9:06 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 9:43 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Sun Jan 20, 9:51 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 1:55 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 2:23 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 3:29 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 22, 7:12 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Tue Jan 22, 11:13 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 22, 12:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 22, 12:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 24, 1:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Pavel Machek, (Thu Jan 24, 3:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Thu Jan 24, 4:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 24, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Fri Jan 25, 12:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 22, 11:49 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Tue Jan 22, 8:42 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Tue Jan 22, 6:24 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 23, 4:48 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Wed Jan 23, 10:12 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 23, 10:24 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Tue Jan 22, 11:06 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 22, 11:52 am)