ipkdb

Maxime Villard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
is there any interest in maintaining ipkdb on i386? It is poorly implemented:
  * Until I removed vm86, ipkdb couldn't interact well with userland 8086
    applications.
  * It does not support SMP.
  * What ipkdbsetup and friends do is basically crazy (patching the IDT etc).

I'm trying to simplify the entry/exit points in the kernel, and the presence of
ipkdb does not help. I would like to remove it from i386. Note also that there
is no support for it on amd64.

Maxime
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