n Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:38 PM Michał Dec <moog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm loading a bunch of drivers during startup, but I'd like to try and unload > them after all the setup is done. What \ command is for unloading drivers? I know LH and DEVLOAD are for loading.
I don't offhand think there is such a command LH and DEVLOAD have the same purpose: load drivers and ?TSRs high to get them out of conventional memory. But in general, you wanted them present and available during your session, and didn't want to unload them. I do have a Unix machine which has an experimental capability to unload drivers, but it was experimental. Nowadays, the efforts are to have things loaded in user space, and unloadable if you no longer need what they do. What drivers are you loading in startup? A driver, by definition, provides access to hardware, and if you want to use the3 hardware you need the driver. I did have utilities back when that I could use to optimize the loading of TSRs. Most took memory when loading and initializing, but that memory cuold be freed and only a small portion thaat was the actual TSR needed to remain resident, so I got to play games h the ortder in which TSRs loaded to leave space for the loading an initialization of subsequent TSRs. That technique was not applicable to drivers. Tell us what you'reloading in startup? Maybe we can help optimize the process. > Michał -- _______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
