linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG

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Message-ID: <CALCETrUDkQCfKoBPYLrC+dAbi4Lr7Ys0_412P8JTiAMaH1j_wA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:49:19 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> I'll try to confirm later this week that dosemu can really handle real
> mode without sys_vm86.

I don't know how to tell whether something is trying to use real mode,
but I can play this just fine in DOSEMU on my 64-bit laptop:

http://dosgames.com/dl.php?filename=http://www.dosgames.com/files/alleycat.zip

which suggests that it works just fine.  There is most certainly no
working sys_vm86 on my laptop.

--Andy
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