linux-kernel - Re: Is vm86old no more implemented?

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Message-ID: <20081206102047.GG6703@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:20:47 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is vm86old no more implemented?

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:52:43PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Суббота 06 декабря 2008 11:56:03 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> writes:
> > > CONFIG_VM86 is defined; is there anything else that is needed? This fails
> > > both in 2.6.27.7 and in 2.6.28-rc7. I attach config from 2.6.28-rc7.
> >
> > It should still work. Can you double check you're running the correct
> > kernel? Perhaps a 64bit kernel (which doesn't implement it).
> >
> 
> Linux cooker 2.6.28-rc7-1avb #23 Fri Dec 5 22:42:47 MSK 2008 i686 Pentium III 
> (Coppermine) GNU/Linux
> 
> Anything else I can check?

Hmm perhaps place a printk into arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c:sys_vm86old()
and see if it's reached.

-Andi

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