At 11:30 PM 10/8/2005 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
MD> We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS
processing
MD> before, too. It's a bad idea that could easily open the floodgates of bug
MD> reports for people wondering why their drivers aren't loading or working
MD> p
Hi!
7-Окт-2005 14:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>> As far as EMM386, I am not sure one could ever reliably load EMM386 at
>> the command prompt post CONFIG.SYS drivers and COMMAND shell, plus a
BB> that would be a kind of virtual suicide indeed.
Hi!
7-Окт-2005 01:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>>So, it's runtime loadable (no idea if it would also crash on 8086) and
MD> We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing
MD> before, too. It's a bad idea that coul
Michael Devore schreef:
We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS
processing before, too. It's a bad idea that could easily open the
floodgates of bug reports for people wondering why their drivers
aren't loading or working properly, and why XMS/EMS memory or
HMA/UMBs
Hi,
[Sorry again about the odd formatting of webmail]
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:49:10 -0500
From: Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
We'v
At 10:58 PM 10/6/2005 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
as for the nature of the XMS driver, to my surprise FDXMS286 *can* be
loaded by DEVLOAD, a commandline loader.
So, it's runtime loadable (no idea if it would also crash on 8086) and
supports 80286 platform
Huge drawback to that is that it's not a
Michael Devore schreef:
Let us avoid the sillier debates. You cannot simultaneously argue
that EMM386 may use a 386-level test to help configure loading at boot
time, yet a separate program cannot legitimately perform the same
test. The nature of EMM386 and HIMEM precludes loading them at a
At 11:13 PM 10/4/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
with>
and
The errorlevel thing would also have the problem that EMM386 and HIMEM
are device drivers. You cannot do "if errorlevel ..." in config sys, so
the suggested solution is ruled out.
Let us avoid the sillier debates. You cannot simultane
Hi Brolin,
> As far as I know, you could not write a generic AC97 driver, because
> AC97 only defines a standard for audio codecs to conform to...
Good point. I just had a quick look at
/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/sound/{oss/ac97*.?,pci/ac97/*.?}
(9k lines of C in 12 files) and it seems that muc
Hi Michael!
> >"soon please" - would be nice to have that soon after FreeDOS 1.0, e.g.
> > before 2.0, for example: several EMM386 / HIMEM features...
> aka, none. EMM386 is quite deliberately versioned at 2.x because it's
> moved beyond what is needed and necessary for a FreeDOS 1.0+ relea
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