Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934450AbbGHRtn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2015 13:49:43 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f48.google.com ([209.85.215.48]:36394 "EHLO mail-la0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758924AbbGHRtk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2015 13:49:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <23d4709cee2fe92c32d41b99c7a3c1823725925a.1436312944.git.luto@kernel.org> <559C8BFE.6050604@linux.intel.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:49:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andy Lutomirski , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 18 On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I'll try to confirm later this week that dosemu can really handle real > mode without sys_vm86. I don't know how to tell whether something is trying to use real mode, but I can play this just fine in DOSEMU on my 64-bit laptop: http://dosgames.com/dl.php?filename=http://www.dosgames.com/files/alleycat.zip which suggests that it works just fine. There is most certainly no working sys_vm86 on my laptop. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/