On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 16:20 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I'm asking here because Fedora seems to one of few distros that > enables CONFIG_VM86 on 32-bit kernels. > > Would anyone object if the upstream kernel (and hence Fedora) removed > vm86 support? This would break 16-bit real mode programs under > dosemu. It would have no effect on 16-bit protected mode programs > under dosemu (i.e. anything that works on a 64-bit kernel), on dosbox > (which you should be using instead of dosemu anyway) or on KVM (which > is also a much better option than dosemu). We don't even have dosemu packaged. Haven't since RHL 7.1 power tools, if brew is to be believed, certainly never in Fedora. I have occasionally appreciated the ability to compare vm86 to x86emu when debugging vesa failures, but that's rapidly ceasing to be a thing I need to care about. I do wonder why its something that needs to be removed entirely instead of locked in a disused filing cabinet in the basement, but I'm not going to shed any tears if it goes away. - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
