Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Bear in mind that the 64-bit kernel doesn't offer all the functionality
>> that the 32-bit one does. vm86 is the most obvious thing missing.
>
> [8:23am] hamish@noddy:~> grep VM86 /boot/config-2.6.17-2-amd64
> CONFIG_VM86=y
In arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S, both the vm86 calls (vm86 and vm86old)
are stubbed to sys32_vm86_warning, which just printks "vm86 mode not
supported on 64 bit kernel" and then returns -ENOSYS.
This is moderately likely to bite people on X - the 32 bit packages will
use vm86 to make VESA calls, and a surprising number of drivers use VESA
calls.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org
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