Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 19:44:06 EST


On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:27:18AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> Dead code, it has been dead since at least 2.0.21. Unless somebody
> wants to fix the string-486 code, delete FIXED_486_STRING,
> CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 and include/asm-i386/string-486.h.

I proposed doing this a few months back, then someone stepped forward
who had worked on these routines recently and fixed up whatever problems
they originally exhibited. Deleting the dead code from 2.2 / 2.4 probably
makes sense, but it'd be nice to have the 2.5 ones fixed up.

    Dave.

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