Hi,

----- Mensaje Original -----
Remitente: Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Destinatario: [email protected]
Fecha: Jueves, Enero 13, 2005  1:21am
Asunto: Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386 (part2 and last)


>At 03:57 PM 1/12/2005 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>>MD> Nothing on an application level should need to disable A20 and 
>if it did,
>>MD> it would crash things loaded in a UMB due to loss of memory 
>access, not to
>>--------------------------------------^^^ HMA ?
>>MD> mention DOS image loaded high going away.  Most interrupts would
>>MD> immediately fail.
>>
>>      Why? They should fail only if they point into HMA and 
>performed when
>>A20 is off.
>If you disable A20, then it's off, right?  Important interrupts can 
>go into 
>DOS territory  No HMA when an interrupt that goes there is triggered 
>== bad 


Well, just to clarify: I didn't mean that you actually disable A20 line really, 
but that you would map the HMA pages into the pages at the begining of the 
memory.


Aitor


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