CONFIG_X86_16BIT: Enable support for 16-bit segments

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_X86_16BIT:

• prompt: Enable support for 16-bit segments
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_EXPERT ) && ( CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL )
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 3.16–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

Help text

This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64,

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