From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3lVa-0008Ca-Rd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:35:38 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3lV3-00085s-CB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:35:36 -0500 Received: from [66.90.130.73] (helo=mx1.lsn.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B3lV2-00085P-Oe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:35:04 -0500 Received: from grandecom.net (216-188-224-19.dyn.grandenetworks.net [216.188.224.19]) by mx1.lsn.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2I0Z182023254 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:35:04 -0600 Message-ID: <4058EEEA.8000307@grandecom.net> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:35:54 -0600 From: Greg Alexander MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and OS/2 References: <4056434B.4070008@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: <4056434B.4070008@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: gwa@alumni.cmu.edu, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.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