Re: Ubuntu 16.04 on i386 has VM86 disabled again

2016-06-11 Thread Andrew Bird
Just a quick note to say, as of package 4.4.0-24-generic, Ubuntu Xenial(16.04) has the vm86 call enabled in its 32 bit kernel. Thanks to all those that added heat to the bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1499089 -- Andrew Bird -- To

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

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

2016-04-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
25.04.2016 15:16, Andrew Bird пишет: Hi all, Just a quick note to let people know that if you upgrade your i386 Ubuntu to 16.04 LTS release, you'll find that you are only using cpu emulation again. I naively thought that fixing the problem for Wily HWE kernel would automatically mean