Hi, indeed a very nice collection of probably small updates but with big improvements in compatibility, even with binarified leaves of lettuce :-). I hope I can test the new version soon...
Questions: New VCPI default is 256 MB, what was the previous default? Can I assume that non-dumb DOS extenders alloc their memory through XMS rather than VCPI anyway, so most DOS extenders will be able to use GigaBytes of memory no matter what the VCPI MAX setting is? And: Do you mean 22 bytes of EMM386 local stack or do you mean 22 bytes of DOS stack? I assume local stack, so I expect no problems related to the change. I do wonder which workaround style is used in our current 386 kernels, of course. A push/pop in execrh would mean more stack footprint and slower device calls. Not using FS/GS at all in the kernel would mean general performance degradation and bigger kernel. In either case, I am happy to hear that we can soon test without workarounds (as soon as Jeremy gets to disable them, in general or for a test) and compare size and performance (e.g. of CON output, as well as stack usage). By the way, also a big thank you to Jeremy for his mysterious 386 mode Windows compatibility improvements. I would really like to know what he changed and how...! Yet I am still impressed that SHARE even makes classical 2035-something kernels DOS box compatible in Win 3.1 standard mode. Possibly in combination with Japheth's DOSX variant. I did not find the time to test whether it even works with stock DOSX. Shame on me. All those big news and updates around and I did not test all of them yet. Anyway, thanks a lot for all the updates. (i.e. thanks Jeremy, Michael, Blair, Geraldo, probably also soon Eduardo, Aitor, Henrique, David O'Shea of MEM... I should really ask somebody to burn a CD of Blair's next ISO with all your updates :-)) Eric ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
