Re: Ev86 mode and Linux

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Brian Gerst  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Linux has the ability to use [e]v86 mode, but the only thing that does
>use it (to my knowledge) is dosemu.

I don't think the extended-v86 mode is documented well enough for it to
be used. It seems to do much of what the current kernel v86 mode support
does, except in hardware rather than in software. However, it probably
doesn't do it quite the same way, and as the interfaces are "Appendix H"
from Intel, it's hard to find out about them..

		Linus