From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 4 16:46:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29831 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 16:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29803; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 16:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA18046; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:15:14 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702050045.LAA18046@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: vm86 in current? In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 4, 97 10:17:25 am" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:15:13 +1030 (CST) Cc: tri@iki.fi, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying: > > Well, I've been re-working the patch set a little but, and now have a > working set of vm86 patches against -current, which appear to be stable. Yay! Are these available somewhere? > I've eliminated a private 'return' to VM86, so now the normal kernel exit > point is used. The next step I want to do is move the emulation of a couple > instructions (cli/sti) into the kernel, and then add in VME support. Wunderbar! The acid test; if you boot DOS in the emulator and start MS-Edit, can you bring down the dropdown menus? > When I get the cli/sti stuff working, I'll submit them to someone for > integration. Hopefully this week. Please make sure that the cli/sti stuff honours the 'connect area' code so that the emulator knows not to deliver device pseudo-interrupts. (I can talk more about this on request) > 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 [[