Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on UEFI and other present and future hardware tricks

2021-05-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on UEFI and other present and future hardware tricks

2021-05-02 Thread tom ehlert
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

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on UEFI and other present and future hardware tricks

2021-05-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, everybody, > I get a lot of the emails you described. People email me to ask why > FreeDOS doesn't run on their Raspberry Pi like Linux does .. or why > FreeDOS can't take advantage of multiple CPUs and cores like Linux > does .. or why FreeDOS can't run on their UEFI-only system (no > "