On Wed 2008-04-23 11:12:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >
> >Hi David,
> >
> >actually, this CONFIG_VM86 was there even before the 
> >renaming was done.
> >The main questions (imo) - is there any user space 
> >application who uses
> >these flags? If they are - then even the idea of this 
> >patch was a bit bogus,
> >and I should *not* remove all these VM86 specific flags 
> >but better define them
> >as aliases on flags from processor-flags.h.
> >
> 
> Hard to know.  VM86 is only used by a handful of 
> applications (DOSEMU, X.org, others?) but it's hard to 
> know what exactly they are.

I believe vbetool and thus s2ram uses vm86, too.

							Pavel
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