[Freedos-kernel] Commit 1705

2012-02-07 Thread C. Masloch
Hi, Commit 1705 renames a particular LoL field CPULevel and adds a comment correctly claiming that MS-DOS sets this field to 1 on 386+ CPUs and to 0 otherwise. The commit however makes the boot loader store the detected CPU level (0, 1, 2, or 3) there instead. I don't think it's necessary

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-07 Thread Tom Ehlert
Dear PerditionC, UBYTE DiskTransferBuffer[MAX_SEC_SIZE]; wastes 3,5 KB low memory for *everybody*, not only when it's needed. regarding how much time we have spend until we had 64 byte free I think this is a bad idea I also think that these experiments should NOT be in the stable

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Commit 1705

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Chris, Jeremy, Commit 1705 renames a particular LoL field CPULevel and adds a comment correctly claiming that MS-DOS sets this field to 1 on 386+ CPUs and to 0 otherwise. The commit however makes the boot loader store the detected CPU level (0, 1, 2, or 3) there instead. I don't

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Regarding commit 1702 (large sector sizes)

2012-02-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote: Dear PerditionC,    UBYTE DiskTransferBuffer[MAX_SEC_SIZE]; wastes 3,5 KB low memory for *everybody*, not only when it's needed. regarding how much time we have spend until we had 64 byte free I think this is a bad