From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 15 15:08:06 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA12504 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 15:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA12495 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 15:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA18445; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:36:23 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612152306.JAA18445@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: VM86 (was Re: MAXMEM...) In-Reply-To: <199612152047.NAA23869@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 15, 96 01:47:16 pm" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:36:22 +1030 (CST) Cc: eivind@dimaga.com, tony@dell.com, hackers@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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > The real soloution is to make VM86() work, and make the BIOS calls Yeah, well vm86() would have been working about 6 months ago if Sean and I had ever received a response to our pleas for help. As it is, it seems to exist more profitably as some Great White Hope than as a working kernel service. > Terry Lambert (If anyone does want to help; change the size of the sigcontext struct, recompile your kernel, and then come back with an enumerated list of other things that need to be changed to stop it from crashing. We could _really_ use some help here.) -- ]] 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 [[