Hi!
6-Янв-2005 15:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net:
EA> If you REALLY want to change the FreeDOS kernel in an impressive way,
EA> then remove that far f_nodes. This will improve compatibility, size,
EA> and (maybe not at once, but it still) stability.
This (improvement) is just suggestion, no one yet measure real gain (or
lost).
>> IMHO if you really want to save space for embedded stuff you should
>> selectively remove features (e.g. FAT12 or FAT32, LBA, FCB stuff,
>> whatever).
EA> Other examples, partially inspired by Tyler: Simplify config sys parsing,
How?
EA> remove most of the country support,
This code is very spread, including access through indirect calls.
EA> maybe in some cases even UMB or HMA handling.
By removing HMA handling, you lost in low memory size. Removing UMB
handling gives not too much (main code is in transient part and some code
inside memmgr.c).
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