Reinhard Karcher wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2014, 10:14:10 schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: >> Hello Stas, >> >> if I understand it from Your last devel branch changes, from Linux >> kernel 3.14+ will no longer be possible to use DPMI on i386 systems >> in VM86 mode? >> It would be annoying thing for me, because I use 32-bit systems for >> all my DOS apps, due to significantly higher performance over both >> emulation modes. >> Please, what is reason for this step? Linux kernel developers have >> always emphasized the need for kernel API preservation, what happened >> in this case? >> It will affect other emulators (wine, qemu) too? > > Hello Franta, > > as far as I know, the change only affects 64-bit kernels. It was > introduces because of an information leak with 16-Bit dmpi applications. > Linus committed a change to restore the old behavior online. > I created a file ldt16.conf in /etc/sysctl.d/ containing the line: > abi.ldt16 = 1 > and got the old behavior after reboot. You could also use the command: > echo 1 > /proc/sys/abi/ldt16 > to change your kernel without reboot. > Linus mentioned complaints from wine users. > The commit to the linux kernel with the workaround is: > fa81511bb0bbb2b1aace3695ce869da9762624ff > > Reinhard
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