Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. No, it always worked. I spent some time on this early in the x86-64 port and it flushed out some bugs in the early segment handling. x86-64 is perfectly compatible to this. Also was always proud that Linux 64 was more compatible old Windows binaries than Win 64... -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- 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