[PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 09:57:01 PDT 2010


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.
> 
> My empirical evidences say that we can't do this. 

The vm86 code is guaranteed to fail in certain circumstances. The most 
obvious is anything where the BIOS tries to access address space above 
3GB. We're better off killing it and figuring out where the bugs in 
x86emu are.



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