On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:56:20AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthew Garrett (mjg(a)redhat.com) said:
> > Should work (solaris had a similar setup and they supported it)
>
> You lose vm86() mode, so dosemu won't work. You also have to hope that
> all the ioctl compatibility works - historically this hasn't been the
> case for all subsystems.
But any such subsystems where this is the case are already broken
on ppc64/sparc64.
Yeah, but I suspect we have more USB scanner users on x86 than ppc64
(for instance).
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org