Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Brian Gerst wrote: Can you tell me how the invisible high-word (invisible in VM-86, and in real mode) could possibly harm something running in VM-86 or read-mode ??? I don't even think it's a BUG. If the transition into and out of VM-86 doesn't handle the fact that the high-word of the stac

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi, Jakob Eriksson wrote: A long term goal of wine is to support DOS apps to. Of course it's not a priority, but it's there. Yes, that's exactly what I was hoping for, thanks! Even if no Windows apps do such a thing (which wasn't confirmed yet), Wine may still need that fix for the DOS support in t

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote: Btw, Stas, one thing I'd really like to see is even a partial list of anything that actually cares about this. Ie, if there is some known Windows app where Wine works better or something like that, just adding I am not using Wine too much, but I've found this: http://cvs