On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Doesn't cripple it in any way.
>
> Forcing it to int 0x80 does however.
No it doesn't.
It runs fine. No crippling.
If you are silly enough to run a eight-year-old distribution, and then
upgrade just the kernel, you'll run a bit slower. So what?
We care about it *working*. We don't care about optimal performance of
an old distribution. People can upgrade if they want.
Linus
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