Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
David O'Shea wrote: ... No. FreeDOS doesn't splits HMA to blocks with headers, similar to MCB in conventional memory. Could we maybe store a char or word in HMA which is at a standardized location which we can read if we know we're running FreeDOS? I'm not sure what MS-DOS does in this r

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Дек-2005 13:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [email protected]: >> Fnd what this char shoukd show? "And what this char should show?" BB> Nothing, just a marker for where buffers would start (until top of HMA). First at all, buffers may be not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Arkady V.Belousov schreef: Fnd what this char shoukd show? Nothing, just a marker for where buffers would start (until top of HMA). Strangely MEM /A does mention "11KB" free in HMA, but to my knowledge the kernel fills remaining HMA space entirely with buffers if DOS=HIGH. Bernd ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Дек-2005 22:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David O'Shea) wrote to : >> No. FreeDOS doesn't splits HMA to blocks with headers, similar to MCB >> in conventional memory. DO> Could we maybe store a char or word in HMA which is at a standardized DO> location which we can read if we know we're runni

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Arkady, > From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:38:43 +0300 (MSK) > >> This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, > DO> Anyone know if there's a way that MEM can check what the kernel is storing > DO> in HMA, specifically with regard

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Дек-2005 19:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David O'Shea) wrote to : >> This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, DO> Anyone know if there's a way that MEM can check what the kernel is storing DO> in HMA, specifically with regards to buffers and other things which can DO> ca

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-08 Thread tom ehlert
Hello David, >> AB> Something stranges happens here. >> AB> BUFFERSHIGH=29 -> 615kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free >> AB> BUFFERSHIGH=30 -> 599kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free >> >> This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, > whereas >> 30 already not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-08 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, > From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:52:50 +0300 (MSK) > 27-îÏÑ-2005 12:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to > [email protected]: > > AB> Something stranges happens here. > AB> BUFFERSHIGH=29 -> 615kB conventional and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Arkady > AB> BUFFERSHIGH=29 -> 615kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free > AB> BUFFERSHIGH=30 -> 599kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free > > This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, whereas > 30 already not. O

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: ... I may make patch sets or test binaries available at http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/ (or for short descriptions use http://www.fdos.org/AuoIndex/index?dir=kernel/test/ ) :-) Jeremy sorry the above url should have a 't' in it, the correct one is: http://www.fdos.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:46:13 -0500, you wrote: Hi Jeremy, >the link is under the 'Developers' section on www.freedos.org labeled >'Kernel/FreeCOM', but yes its easy enough to overlook (I'm always >skipping past the 'Report bugs' link when I go to look over bug >reports). I updated the lsm so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: ... I wrote that after spending a couple of successless minutes to locate the kernel (or freecom) source, starting from www.freedos.org just try software->base->kernel->kernel.lsm and you are either on a dead link or on the same page again :( www.fdos.org/kernel/ I know th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Kenneth, >> just a few cents: >> >> a) are human beings like me supposed to locate kernel sources ? >>how about a link where one can download it without knowing where it >>is ? > they are in the same place they have been, on sourceforge cvs. I wrote that after spending a couple of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: Hello Kenneth, With several of my changes/additions the size of the kernel has grown just a few cents: a) are human beings like me supposed to locate kernel sources ? how about a link where one can download it without knowing where it is ? they are in the same pl

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Ноя-2005 17:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to "Kenneth J. Davis" : te> b) anyone knows who in hell is 'perditionc' "Kenneth Davis " te> (or 'ror4') ? http://cryogen.com/ror4/hcc/ --- This SF.net email is spons

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Kenneth, > With several of my changes/additions the size of the > kernel has grown just a few cents: a) are human beings like me supposed to locate kernel sources ? how about a link where one can download it without knowing where it is ? b) anyone knows who in hell is 'perditionc'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 27-Ноя-2005 12:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to [email protected]: AB> Something stranges happens here. AB> BUFFERSHIGH=29 -> 615kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free AB> BUFFERSHIGH=30 -> 599kB conventional and 150kB upper

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Ноя-2005 12:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to [email protected]: AB> Something stranges happens here. AB> BUFFERSHIGH=29 -> 615kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free AB> BUFFERSHIGH=30 -> 599kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free This is n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have the buffers defined in "CONFIG.SYS" with "BUFFERSHIGH=30". > > With the kernel "kwc38616.sys" from 2005-10-20, the BUFFERS aren't > listet with "mem /p /f" (mem v1.8)... > > With the kernel "ktc8616.sys" from 2005-11-26, "mem /p /f" tells th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jeremy Kenneth J. Davis wrote: > Andreas Bollhalder wrote: ... > This is due to work in progress, I am adding a wrapper to int13h so disk > changes are less likely to go unnoticed (closer to MS-DOS behaviour), > however my commit last weekend

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Andreas Bollhalder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I use FreeDOS in the QEMU emulator for running my DOS applications under Windows XP. Today, I testet the developer kernels. 1. The kernels compiled with OpenWatcom won't boot. They stop with the following message:

[Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-26 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I use FreeDOS in the QEMU emulator for running my DOS applications under Windows XP. Today, I testet the developer kernels. 1. The kernels compiled with OpenWatcom won't boot. They stop with the following message: KWC8616.SYS -> FATAL: int 13