On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:08:37AM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> Le Sat, 14 Dec 2002 06:49:01 +0100
> Joel Wilsson a ?crit :
> > On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:57  am, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > AFAIK, USER_LDT is only used by Wine. Each Windows app can have up to
> > > 2 LDT entries in GDT, one for app itself, and optionally, one for DPMI
> > > int 0x31 interface. However, I don't think "/ 2" is necessary, since
> > > very few Windows apps actually use DPMI and hardly anybody is running
> > > such program under Wine & NetBSD these days (if someone _really_
> > > wanted to run one, I'd recommend that he buy a copy of Win9X).
> > 
> > I don't know if it's up to date, but avifile's MESSAGES says:
> > This package requires a kernel built with
> > the directive:
> > 
> > options USER_LDT
> > 
> > But hardly anybody is running that instead of mplayer, right? :)
> 
> mplayer uses avifile's DLL loader, so it has the same requirement to use
> Win32 codecs.

It's no problem, since avifile doesn't use DPMI.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>