On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Ah, it's in rpmfusion, not 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. It may not end up going away. I want to mark it BROKEN, which means that basically everyone's config will disable it. The problem is that it's buggy and probably full of security holes. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
