Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386, HLT, options

2004-03-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:18 AM 3/28/2004 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: >Michael, > >MD> Since you're the maintainer and overall "big picture" >MD> operations man on EMM386 >well - I was the programing guy. Now someone else stepped in, and he >has done GREAT. Now I'm left with administrative stuff ;) > > >MD> and I've just

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386, HLT, options

2004-03-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:13 AM 3/28/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >MD> compatibility (I like your suggestion to use percentage of extended memory >MD> for VCPI much better than using Microsoft's fixed 256K for example). You > > Let me remind: "256K" is a default value for MIN= option. Requests over >this

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386, HLT, options

2004-03-27 Thread tom ehlert
Michael, MD> Since you're the maintainer and overall "big picture" MD> operations man on EMM386 well - I was the programing guy. Now someone else stepped in, and he has done GREAT. Now I'm left with administrative stuff ;) MD> and I've just been handling the addition MD> of a couple of features

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386, HLT, options

2004-03-27 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Мар-2004 16:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> Once EMM386 gets debugged VCPI, I'm probably not going to be diddling around MD> the EMM386 code much and generally causing trouble, other than wanting at MD> some point to add the shared EMS/XMS memory pool

[Freedos-devel] EMM386, HLT, options

2004-03-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:07 PM 3/27/2004 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: >>> someone said EMM386 is incompatible with HLT instruction? > >MD> EMM386 uses the HLT instruction for its own purposes, but it >MD> does a check if the HLT is coming from itself or externally. >MD> Other than that, it looks like HLT causes the ex