Re: [LinuxBIOS] Epia-M compilation fails

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Ronald G Minnich  [051013 15:39]:
> > I guess we can put the old support back if we really have to, but i'd 
> > like to avoid it. The old 'drop to x86 mode' support always worried me a 
> > bit.
>
> Using vm86 mode might be a way out of the misery. XFree86/Xorg does this on
> x86 machines. I've looked into how they did it, and it looks rather
> simple, except they're using a system call to switch to vm86 mode.
>
> Stefan

I looked at that years ago as well. I would rather we just get Nicks' 
problem solved via emulation.

ron