Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:33:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: sef@Kithrup.COM, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New vm86 patches Message-ID: <199703040903.TAA13019@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970301152357.01799@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Mar 1, 97 03:23:57 pm"
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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying: > On Feb 02, 1997 at 07:33:22PM -0800, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > I have placed the current patches that msmith and I are using (jlemon > > is a bit ahead of us ;)) on freefall.freebsd.org, in ~ftp/pub/sef. > > Urk. Yeah, these are older patches. I just grabbed 2.2-GAMMA and built > a kernel this morning, and the last set of patches that I sent out (for > -current) applies cleanly to -GAMMA as well. Just beating on these now. They look OK, and the lkm probably makes your life a lot easier. > Note that there some modifications are needed to doscmd as well; these > diffs are included in the patch set. They should also apply cleanly to > doscmd_fbsd-970228. They do, but the resulting kernel doesn't do the vm86 thing. I have the LKM loaded, and a doscmd built with the new kernel headers, but no soap. Is entry to vm86 mode still via sigreturn as per normal? > Please try these patches. I was able to run 'fdisk' from OpenDOS without > crashing my system; in fact, these are the same patches that I've been > running for the last few weeks, without any crashes at all. It would be > nice if we could get these into 2.2 before it is released, or is this > too "11th hour" for everybody? It's way too 11th hour, but I'll be asking Jordan to put whatever the most current 'stable' doscmd might be on the 2.2 CD. > Jonathan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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