Hi Eric, > And for various reasons, Stas has spent a lot of work to pull > most of the FreeDOS kernel over into the protected mode space > in context of dosemu2. That module is now called fdpp. It lacks > the init-text and the hma-text part runs on the Linux side, > with dosemu-specific connectors residing on the DOS side.
> This makes it somewhat convoluted to "package" the heavily > updated fdpp kernel back into a classic "kernel.sys loaded by > a boot sector" infrastructure again and of course some things > are now optimized for protected mode. So it can be frustrating > that many updates for the kernel have ended up somewhat out of > reach, backporting them would require tedious cherry picking. now it would be interesting to hear about these 'heavy' updates, that happened completely in the dark for FreeDOS developers. what do they do? fix bugs? improve compatibility? where are they documented? it would be cool to let the freedos kernel developers decide if these changes are out of scope, or if cherry picking might be possible and worth the effort. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
