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It's often useful to be able to make real-mode x86 BIOS calls from userland. lrmi provides a simple interface to this for x86 machines, but this doesn't help on other platforms. libx86 provides the lrmi interface, but will also run on platforms such as amd64 and alpha.
libx86: A hardware-independent library for executing real-mode x86 code
It's often useful to be able to make real-mode x86 BIOS calls from userland. lrmi provides a simple interface to this for x86 machines, but this doesn't help on other platforms. libx86 provides the lrmi interface, but will also run on platforms such as amd64 and alpha.
| Name: | libx86 |
| Release: | 1.1-4mamba |
| Group: | System/Libraries |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 104.35 kB |
| Upstream URL: | http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/ |
| Build time: | 2025-11-28 14:04:07 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | libx86 libx86-debug libx86-devel | libx86 libx86-debug libx86-devel |
| Build requirements | glibc-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-28 | silvan | 1.1-4mamba | - rebuilt with patches from Fedora |
| 2014-08-20 | silvan | 1.1-3mamba | - added pkgconfig patch |
| 2012-11-21 | silvan | 1.1-2mamba | - rebuilt with BACKEND=x86emu which makes it portable on non x86 archs (needs retest on x86) |
| 2009-05-18 | autodist | 1.1-1mamba | - automatic update by autodist |
| 2008-01-08 | silvan | 0.99-1mamba | - package created by autospec |
