Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: further cleanup of 32-bit compat syscallmechanisms

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > AMD only supports "syscall" from 32-bit compat usermode.
> > Intel and Centaur(?) only support "sysenter" from 32-bit compat 
> > usermode.
> >
> > Set the X86 feature bits accordingly, and set up the vdso in
> > accordance with those bits.  On the offchance we run on in a 64-bit
> > environment which supports neither syscall nor sysenter from 32-bit
> > mode, then fall back to the int $0x80 vdso.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 

Have these been applied to anything yet?

   J
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