[RFC] xserver: use LRMI for real-mode calls (v2)

Tiago Vignatti tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Mon Nov 30 10:09:16 PST 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:20:07PM +0100, ext Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:53 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:54:26 +0200, Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >   On the other hand, we could simply forget forever vm86 backend, given
> > >   x86emu encompass it - ajax has hard arguments to simply remove vm86
> > >   either.
> 
> To be clear, I suggested delegating the choice of vm86 or emulation to
> libx86, instead of implementing it in the X server.

Yeah, that's the idea of lrmi and I in fact implemented this way:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/xserver/commit/?h=libx86-take2&id=77de55374e4e7ff1c615f506572ef2d660a7799a


Cheers, 

            Tiago


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