2014-04-12 15:25, H. Peter Anvin: > On 04/12/2014 02:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >>> Run a 32-bit VM. The 32-bit kernel does this right. >> >> I really don't think that's the answer. >> >> If people really run these 16-bit programs, we need to allow it. >> Clearly it used to work. >> >> Just make the unconditional "don't allow 16-bit segments" be a sysconf >> entry. >> > > Well, is there more than one user, really... that's my question. >
Just to let you know, I use this too for running some old Win16 apps, so there's at least two of us... But doesn't this change also break DPMI apps running in dosemu? -- 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/
