On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:47:05PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> >>> Which makes me seriously doubt that these bugs can be found and fixed >>> fast enough such that users won't be affected. >> >> If vm86 were an option on anything other than 32-bit x86 I'd have >> sympathy with retaining it, but it's not a useful fallback if only runs >> on a tiny fraction of today's machines. > > Isn't vm86 even further limited to just those machines running the Linux > kernel, not BSD or Solaris or anything else? (Okay, maybe that doesn't > take a huge chunk out of the number of machines that can run it, but it > is replacing one more platform-specific difference with common code.)
Was the vm86 backend disabled by default a few xservers back as well? Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
