[PATCH 2/2] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 domain support
Tony Luck
tony.luck at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 16:20:00 PDT 2014
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> wrote:
Did you read the comment?
> -/*
> - * Even when CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is not enabled it is
> - * useful to have the Linux/x86 domain registered to
> - * avoid an attempted module load when emulators call
> - * personality(PER_LINUX32). This saves several milliseconds
> - * on each such call.
> - */
I don't know if there are still people using ia32el to run x86 binaries
on ia64 ... but if there are, they may be sad at the extra delays.
-Tony
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