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From: Greg Alexander <yakovlev@grandecom.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and OS/2
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:35:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4058EEEA.8000307@grandecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4056434B.4070008@bellard.org>



Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you try the CVS ? I made a specific VGA fix for the OS/2 install 
> (you can see the OS/2 & IBM logo), but there are still problems after.
> 
> If OS/2 does not rely on segment limit checks or weird FPU exceptions, 
> then there is a chance that QEMU can launch it soon.

If I remember correctly, at least the early versions of OS/2 DID rely on 
segment limit checks.  This allowed it to do multitaking on 286 
processors, and a lot of that mechanism was still used in the 386 code.

GREG

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-15 21:11 [Qemu-devel] qemu and OS/2 Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-15 22:33 ` J. Mayer
2004-03-16 20:03   ` [Qemu-devel] " Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-15 23:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fabrice Bellard
2004-03-16 20:03   ` [Qemu-devel] " Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-17 13:17     ` Jocelyn Mayer
2004-03-17 22:02     ` J. Mayer
2004-03-18 21:19       ` Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-18 21:45         ` J. Mayer
2004-03-19  5:31           ` Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-19  6:57             ` J. Mayer
2004-03-19 10:11               ` Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-21 18:34                 ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-03-21 21:35                   ` Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-18  0:35   ` Greg Alexander [this message]
2004-03-18  0:54     ` [Qemu-devel] " Fabrice Bellard

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