From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755649AbaEHUOB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2014 16:14:01 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:41960 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755612AbaEHUOA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2014 16:14:00 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,1013,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="537289571" Message-ID: <536BE561.7090303@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:13:21 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Sven Joachim CC: Linus Torvalds , Alexandre Julliard , Brian Gerst , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , stable Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels References: <87k3aspd1h.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> <87zjiuymiu.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <536A68B1.6070500@zytor.com> <87vbtgahxs.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <4b728523-2e82-42f1-997c-792ce8e3219f@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <4b728523-2e82-42f1-997c-792ce8e3219f@email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/08/2014 06:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Actually it could use KVM instead of CPU emulation on nearly all modern processors... Of course, at that point you might just run qemu-kvm instead of DOSEMU, since I seem to recall that DOSEMU is still a real version of DOS. I have to admit to mostly using DOSBOX for games and KVM for anything else that needs DOS these days... just what happens to work best for me. -hpa