> 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. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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