>>> you can design APIs all day long, but if nobody is using these APIs >>> it's a bit pointless. and the BIOS certainly will not suddenly call >>> any DMA reservation API.
>> These APIs will be used by anybody who needs to virtualize things >> like IRQs, I/O ports, and DMA channels. > after more then 18 years of virtualization we somehow learn right now that > we need a 'virtualization API'. sometimes Tom writes nonsense. he was speaking about VirtualPC and the like. for the intended purpose - presenting a virtual sound card, serial port, paralell port etc. this might make sense. however only a sound card would use DMA. > And hard drives and Ethernet cards and anything else that needs to transfer a > lot of data at once. none of them use ISA DMA which is the one you would have to synchronize. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
