On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote: > There is a caveat, however. Certain applications running in virtual-8086 > mode, such as DOSEMU[1] and Wine[2], want to utilize the SGDT, SIDT and > SLDT instructions for legitimate reasons. In order to keep such > applications working, UMIP must be disabled/enabled when entering/exiting > virtual-8086 mode. Would it not be better to emulate these instructions for them? What way we can verify they're not malicious. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
