Re: Ubuntu 16.04 on i386 has VM86 disabled again

2016-04-26 Thread Andrew Bird
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:17:43 +0100 Paul Crawford wrote: > On 25/04/16 13:52, Stas Sergeev wrote: > > That was the "right" thing to do. Or at least justified and discussed. > > If we want vm86(), we need to re-implement it properly. > > I have a word from top linux devs

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 on i386 has VM86 disabled again

2016-04-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
26.04.2016 13:09, Andrew Bird пишет: The long term goal for the Kernel would be a new simplified vm86() call, but most likely this is not going to be backwardly compatible for existing apps to run unchanged. This is not a problem: there are currently 2 vm86 syscalls: vm86() and vm86old(). One

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 on i386 has VM86 disabled again

2016-04-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
26.04.2016 12:17, Paul Crawford пишет: On 25/04/16 13:52, Stas Sergeev wrote: That was the "right" thing to do. Or at least justified and discussed. If we want vm86(), we need to re-implement it properly. I have a word from top linux devs (including Linus himself) that properly implemented