From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 08:51:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA02783 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 08:51:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA02777 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 08:51:14 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01512; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:50:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id RAA09317 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:50:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA00995 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:45:28 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504021545.RAA00995@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: grafx console & DDB To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:45:26 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504021447.HAA06906@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 2, 95 07:47:34 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 668 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > [vm86() call] > I'm not sure if I'll get time to do the work before 2.1 since more > critical stuff comes up all the time, so please don't rely on the VM86 > code working by then. I also think it's too dangerous putting this kind of code in before 2.1 ships. It's clearly `new features', so we should hold it back for an even-numbered release. OTOH, the `no DDB while the VT is in process mode' hack is rather simple, and does no big harm -- even if it's ``not exactly the Right Thing [tm]''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)