On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 17:08 +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: > 08.03.2017 03:32, Ricardo Neri пишет: > > These are the instructions covered by UMIP: > > * SGDT - Store Global Descriptor Table > > * SIDT - Store Interrupt Descriptor Table > > * SLDT - Store Local Descriptor Table > > * SMSW - Store Machine Status Word > > * STR - Store Task Register > > > > This patchset initially treated tasks running in virtual-8086 mode as a > > special case. However, I received clarification that DOSEMU[8] does not > > support applications that use these instructions. > Yes, this is the case. > But at least in the past there was an attempt to > support SLDT as it is used by an ancient pharlap > DOS extender (currently unsupported by dosemu1/2). > So how difficult would it be to add an optional > possibility of delivering such SIGSEGV to userspace > so that the kernel's dummy emulation can be overridden? I suppose a umip=noemulation kernel parameter could be added in this case. > It doesn't need to be a matter of this particular > patch set, i.e. this proposal should not trigger a > v7 resend of all 21 patches. :) But it would be useful > for the future development of dosemu2. Would dosemu2 use 32-bit processes in order to keep segmentation? If it could use 64-bit processes, emulation is not used in this case and the SIGSEGV is delivered to user space. Thanks and BR, Ricardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
