On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:58:35PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 12:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There are big advantages to "minimal code" at fixed addresses. The
> > vdso=native thing fills the page with 0xcc just to not give useful
> > instructions (still on my phone, so that may be a bogus memory)
> > 
> > That said, I doubt we care just for OpenSUSE 9. Let it be slower.
> 
> Yes.

At some point the majority of my nfsroot test image were OpenSUSE 9.
It was the last opensuse system that booted fast without udev or initrd :-)

I have mostly retired them by now, but still occasional usage.

So that why i would prefer to not cripple it.

-Andi
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