> Just for clarity, what platforms would be affected by this? I thought > the non-free software was needed for Montecito+, and that Madison > worked fine w/o it.
You are correct. All cpu implementations prior to "Montecito" have h/w support for x86 instructions. "Montecito" does not. You'll have to make your own bets and guesses about whether this would ever be re-introduced. > My vote is not to drop the "free" kernel support, though I'm also not > offering to take over maintenance so it probably doesn't count for > much. "Freeze" is pretty much where it has been for a while. This thread was started by a patch that caught up all the missing x86 system calls. Even though the handlers all point into generic code, I'm always a bit twitchy about including code that hasn't been exercised even once. This would be a lot easier if people adding system calls provided at least an example program that uses the call ... even better would be an actual test-suite that runs through all the options and failure cases for the call. But the recent slew of new syscalls have mostly lacked any such trimmings. -Tony
