On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is this bug really still present in modern CPUs? This change breaks >> running 16-bit apps in Wine. I have a few really old games I like to >> play on occasion, and I don't have a copy of Win 3.11 to put in a VM. > > Ok, so you actually do this on x86-64, and it currently works? For > some reason I thought that 16-bit windows apps already didn't work. > > Because if we have working users of this, then I don't think we can do > the "we don't support 16-bit segments", or at least we need to make it > runtime configurable. > > Linus I haven't tested it recently but I do know it has worked on 64-bit kernels. There is no reason for it not to, the only thing not supported in long mode is vm86. 16-bit protected mode is unchanged. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html