Re: [PATCH] x86/FPU: Fix FPU handling on legacy FPU machines

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 17:03:39 EST


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Obvious Ack to the patch, along with a "how did this ever work
> before?" comment..

I had a sarcastic sentence in the commit message which I deleted later:

"Apparently no one had tried the kernel on a 486er after the FPU
rewrite. Backwards compatibility is overrated."

:-)

I'm still wondering, though, why didn't the Quark people scream
earlier... And who knows, it was probably b0rked even before the
FPU rewrite.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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