On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 04/11/2014 11:27 AM, Brian Gerst 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. > > It is not a bug, per se, but an architectural definition issue, and it > is present in all x86 processors from all vendors. > > Yes, it does break running 16-bit apps in Wine, although Wine could be > modified to put 16-bit apps in a container. However, this is at best a > marginal use case.
Marginal or not, it is still userspace breakage. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
