Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I haven't tested it recently but I do know it has worked on 64-bit >> kernels. There is no reason for it not to, the only thing not >> supported in long mode is vm86. 16-bit protected mode is unchanged. > > Afaik 64-bit windows doesn't support 16-bit binaries, so I just > assumed Wine wouldn't do it either on x86-64. Not for any real > technical reasons, though. > > HOWEVER. I'd like to hear something more definitive than "I haven't > tested recently". The "we don't break user space" is about having > actual real *users*, not about test programs. > > Are there people actually using 16-bit old windows programs under > wine? That's what matters.
Yes, there is still a significant number of users, and we still regularly get bug reports about specific 16-bit apps. It would be really nice if we could continue to support them on x86-64, particularly since Microsoft doesn't ;-) -- Alexandre Julliard julli...@winehq.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
