> From: Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:46:59 -0400 > > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 20:23 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:01 +0100 > > > From: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:15:56PM +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:32:54PM +0200, ext Adam Jackson wrote: > > > > > vm86 has been defaulted off since 1.6, and is still a terrible idea= > to > > > > > actually use. Time to say goodbye. > > > >=20 > > > > My empirical evidences say that we can't do this.=20 > > >=20 > > > The vm86 code is guaranteed to fail in certain circumstances. The most=20 > > > obvious is anything where the BIOS tries to access address space above=20 > > > 3GB. We're better off killing it and figuring out where the bugs in=20 > > > x86emu are. > >=20 > > How about fixing those bugs before killing it? > > Some of them are... nontrivial.
Which makes me seriously doubt that these bugs can be found and fixed fast enough such that users won't be affected. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
