From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: App database, libsynth Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:29:36 +0400 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F10A7F0.9060405@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Ryan Underwood wrote: >> In long mode there is no vm86. > It looked like the long vs legacy mode could be toggled > on a per segment basis in the rest of the information I > pasted. What do you think that refers to? That refers to that you seem like confusing the legacy mode with the compatibility mode. See this about switching: http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg03333.html For now the decision was AFAIK to not mess with vm86() in x86-64 linux port. That may sound sad for us, but I guess they had some reasons for doing so.