Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:03:02 -0700 | Subject | Re: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') |
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Andy, > Yes I know of a least one instance of a company specifically running 32bit > server purely so that they can eek out every last drop of performance from > a legacy DOS business application using the hardware rather than emulation. > As an indication, the speedup of doing this for his application is around > 2x, this is not trivial to him as in the past he has overclocked his > machines for this very reason. > From a user perspective, being able to control this at runtime is most > desirable, switching kconfig and rebuilding kernels is not, as he wants to > run stock distro kernels. > Thanks for looking at this. >
Will do.
Given that dosemu2 is actively developed, maybe I should see about packaging it for Fedora. It'll make testing easier.
--Andy
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