Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261623AbVCNRHP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:07:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261625AbVCNRHP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:07:15 -0500 Received: from alog0162.analogic.com ([208.224.220.177]:3554 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261623AbVCNRGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:06:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:23 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Jakob Eriksson cc: Andi Kleen , Stas Sergeev , Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , Linux kernel , Petr Vandrovec , Denis Vlasenko , wine-devel@winehq.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug In-Reply-To: <4235AC0B.70507@vmlinux.org> Message-ID: References: <42348474.7040808@aknet.ru> <20050313201020.GB8231@elf.ucw.cz> <4234A8DD.9080305@aknet.ru> <423518A7.9030704@aknet.ru> <4235AC0B.70507@vmlinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 49 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Stas Sergeev writes: >> >>>> Another way of saying the same thing: I absolutely hate seeing >>>> patches that fix some theoretical issue that no Linux apps will ever >>>> care about. >>>> >>> No, it is not theoretical, but it is mainly >>> about a DOS games and an MS linker, as for >>> me. The things I'd like to get working, but >>> the ones you may not care too much about:) >>> The particular game I want to get working, >>> is "Master of Orion 2" for DOS. >>> >> >> How about you just run it in dosbox instead of dosemu ? >> > > Yes, that's a solution of course, but it is a bit like saying why > not use Open Office instead of MS Word. > > A long term goal of wine is to support DOS apps to. Of course > it's not a priority, but it's there. > > regards, > Jakob > Can you tell me how the invisible high-word (invisible in VM-86, and in real mode) could possibly harm something running in VM-86 or read-mode ??? I don't even think it's a BUG. If the transition into and out of VM-86 doesn't handle the fact that the high-word of the stack hasn't been used in VM-86, then that piece of code is bad (the SP isn't even the same stack, BTW). Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/