x86: IAMCU, L1OM, and K1OM

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> H.J.,
>
> may I ask what the status / purpose of these is? They were added years
> ago, but actually useful functionality has never appeared. Since I've
> noticed a couple of issues with the involved gas code, I'm now
> wondering: Should I try to make fixes, or can the logic rather be
> purged altogether? Even if the overhead isn't high, the presence of
> support for these not really usable sub-architectures is causing some
> extra cycles to be wasted on each and every gas invocation.
>
> Thanks for any insight into possible plans here,
> Jan
>

We can deprecate L1OM and K1OM.  But we should
keep IAMCU.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.