On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 16:20 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
I'm asking here because Fedora seems to one of few distros that
enables CONFIG_VM86 on 32-bit kernels.
Would anyone object if the upstream kernel (and hence Fedora) removed
vm86 support? This would break 16-bit real mode programs under
dosemu. It would have no effect on 16-bit protected mode programs
under dosemu (i.e. anything that works on a 64-bit kernel), on dosbox
(which you should be using instead of dosemu anyway) or on KVM (which
is also a much better option than dosemu).
We don't even have dosemu packaged. Haven't since RHL 7.1 power tools,
if brew is to be believed, certainly never in Fedora.
I have occasionally appreciated the ability to compare vm86 to x86emu
when debugging vesa failures, but that's rapidly ceasing to be a thing
I need to care about. I do wonder why its something that needs to be
removed entirely instead of locked in a disused filing cabinet in the
basement, but I'm not going to shed any tears if it goes away.
- ajax