x86: IAMCU, L1OM, and K1OM

[Jan Beulich]

On 07.03.2022 15:09, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> We can deprecate L1OM and K1OM.

And "deprecate" == "delete" or something less heavy?

>  But we should keep IAMCU.

IOW there's stuff to come to actually fill this?

Jan