On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:05:19 +0100 (CET), kiewitz wrote:

>>Are there any non-German-speakers around ?
>Roderick complained on IRC ;-))

Dutch counts as a strange German accent ;-)

>?? It's possible to modify Dev-Helper functions using PSDs? That's a nice feature. 
>Where can I get
>documentation about them?

You can do a lot of interesting things in PSDs; you'll find this
documented in the SMP programming addendum. If people need it I can
push it to the list.

>>>Also could it be that some implementations of ACPI are buggy in terms of 16-bit PM?
>>ACPI is something completely different. The BIOS is hardly involved
>>(except for providing the AML code which will be interpreted by the
>>ACPI AML interpreter).
>
>That's good.
>Like I said, I had no time to read ACPI documentation.

Better do before building too much into your GCONFIG driver.

>>As I said before, no fiddling with OS2LDR, please. It wouldn't work
>>with IOAPICs at all.

>device-driver OEMHLP$. If there is a non-patching solution (e.g. PSDs), I will change 
>my code of course.

Have a look at that. I don't mind the non-IRQ stuff, but IRQ handling
is to be done in PSDs.

Ciao,
  Dani

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Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH
Gräfenberger Str. 32-34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany
Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11


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