linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

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Message-ID: <536BE561.7090303@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 08 May 2014 13:13:21 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexandre Julliard <julliard@...ehq.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit
 kernels

On 05/08/2014 06:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually it could use KVM instead of CPU emulation on nearly all modern processors...

Of course, at that point you might just run qemu-kvm instead of DOSEMU,
since I seem to recall that DOSEMU is still a real version of DOS.  I
have to admit to mostly using DOSBOX for games and KVM for anything else
that needs DOS these days... just what happens to work best for me.

	-hpa


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