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
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Andrew Bird
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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
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
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
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