Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:59:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS emulator; Silly questions ... Message-ID: <199604110959.LAA23193@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199604110955.TAA29454@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 11, 96 07:25:39 pm
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
>
> Tam Weng Seng stands accused of saying:
> It appears to be a historic wart. See my patches as previously referred.
>
> > 2. Has anybody gotten it to compile and work ???
>
> Yes and no, in that order. There are some kernel interaction problems
> that aren't yet resolved, and until we've got this sorted out, the
> remainder is effectively impossible to test.
Ahem, it shouldn't be much trouble in getting these userlevel things
going, the main difficulty is to get VM86 support into the kernel,
which is a totally different matter (which has been looked at by
various people, me including). It is also imperative that the VM86
support be done in a way so it can be used for other things,, or
this will just be another bloat to the system...
> In the first instance, -current will probably be required to use it, with
> perhaps some patches available to update -stable, but I can't see -stable
> adding this sort of (dangerous) support for some time.
This has no chance of getting into -stable as I see it...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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