From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4KJ-00036t-U0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:59:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4KI-00036a-Ia for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:59:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4KI-00036X-AM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:59:30 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hd4Fm-0003CW-QY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:54:51 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:54:47 +0100 References: <4621F9B8.8090808@bandsman.co.uk> <200704151335.05068.paul@codesourcery.com> <46221E0F.6050208@bandsman.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <46221E0F.6050208@bandsman.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704151354.47567.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: 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 > > Modern x86 are backwards compatible[*], so you should be able to do that > > anyway. > > Care to share with us how I do that? Is it an option to gcc? gcc does not support 16-bit mode. My point is that pretty much anything that runs on a 286 should also run on any subsequent x86 processor. If you want to test 16-bit x86 software/systems you don't need an actual 286. A 386 is just as good for almost all purposes. Paul