Working on "DOS" VGA.

[Saulius Krasuckas]

* On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2 at ar.fi.lt> wrote:
> > * On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> >>
> >> There's protected mode 32 bit, protected mode 16 bit, but no vm86 16 
> >> bit. So no real mode apps in Wine. We'd need to integrate a CPU 
> >> emulator or JIT compiler into Wine to get this working.
> >
> > DOSBox does something like this already.  I lack ideas about to what 
> > extent DOSBox could be integrated, but at least its CPU emulator could 
> > do. Or maybe DOSBox could even be bridged/integrated and do all the 
> > DOS stuff here?
> >
> > Then IIRC there were discussions in the past about integrating Qemu into
> > Wine.  Some folks at Darwine have achieved this to some degree: [1]
> 
> AFAIK we can't integrate with DOSBox, Dosemu or FreeDOS for the same 
> reason we can't integrate with Samba: their GPL licence.

I am profane at licensing, but does GPL restrict even usage of binary 
(linking, execution), or only a compilation of source code?

> in my experience QEMU is very slow when it does full emulation.

Should not be slower that eg. BOCHS.


S.