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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ahmed S . Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:26:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aAyYyyiTY02DW8pH@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@kernel.org>

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Hi!

> In the x86 architecture we have various complicated hardware emulation
> facilities on x86-32 to support ancient 32-bit CPUs that very very few
> people are using with modern kernels. This compatibility glue is sometimes
> even causing problems that people spend time to resolve, which time could
> be spent on other things.

We have open-source 486 cores, such as
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer . I'm not aware of
open-source 586 cores... so this is a bit sad.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-26  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-25  8:41 Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:41 ` [PATCH 01/15] x86/cpu: Remove M486/M486SX/ELAN support Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:41 ` [PATCH 02/15] x86/cpu: Remove CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D/MWINCHIPC6 Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 03/15] x86/cpu: Remove CPU_SUP_UMC_32 support Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 04/15] x86/cpu: Remove TSC-less CONFIG_M586 support Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25 15:09   ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 05/15] x86/cpu, x86/platform, watchdog: Remove CONFIG_X86_RDC321X support Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 06/15] x86/cpu: Remove the CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG quirk Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 07/15] x86/cpu, cpufreq: Remove AMD ELAN support Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 08/15] x86/fpu: Remove MATH_EMULATION and related glue code Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 09/15] x86/fpu: Remove the 'no387' boot option Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 10/15] x86/fpu: Remove the math-emu/ FPU emulation library Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 11/15] x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_TSC unconditional Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 12/15] x86: Remove !CONFIG_X86_TSC code Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 13/15] x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_CX8 unconditional Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25 12:10   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-25 15:15     ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-04-25 21:54       ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-27  9:25         ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-27 17:32           ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-27 21:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-04-28  9:16             ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-28 11:21               ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-29 10:22                 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-29 12:10                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-27  8:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 14/15] x86/percpu: Remove !CONFIG_X86_CX8 methods Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25 14:05   ` Uros Bizjak
2025-04-27  7:46     ` [PATCH -v2 " Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 15/15] x86/atomics: " Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25 13:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-25 14:10   ` Uros Bizjak
2025-04-25 15:00     ` Brian Gerst
2025-04-27  8:23       ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-27  8:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-27 10:31       ` Uros Bizjak
2025-05-15  8:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25 11:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-26  8:26 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2025-05-05  8:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-05 12:48   ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-05 13:04     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-05 19:57       ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-05 20:54         ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-06 13:51           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-06 14:16             ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-08 14:51               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-08 20:11                 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-12 12:55                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-12 13:48                     ` Borislav Petkov
2025-05-12 17:29                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-13  2:00                         ` Linus Torvalds
2025-05-13  3:48                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-13  5:43                           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-05-13 21:55                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-13 22:02                               ` Linus Torvalds
2025-05-13 22:06                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-15 16:32                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-06 13:48         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-06 13:54           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-05-05 15:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-05-06 13:53     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-06 16:44       ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-06 17:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2025-05-06 17:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-08 14:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-08 14:53           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-05-08 14:51         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-04-21  8:12 [linus:master] [x86/cpu] f388f60ca9: BUG:soft_lockup-CPU##stuck_for#s![swapper:#] kernel test robot
2025-04-22 10:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-24  2:12   ` Oliver Sang
2025-04-24  7:59     ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-24 16:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-04-24 17:54         ` [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs Ingo Molnar
2025-04-24 18:01           ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-24 21:27           ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-25  7:40             ` Ingo Molnar
2025-04-25  9:30               ` Arnd Bergmann

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