Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 54415: [I8042PRT] - Implement support for hot plugging PS/2 mice if one was present at boot (same requirement as Windows) - Fixes bug 1395

2011-11-21 Thread Cameron Gutman
On Nov 21, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Magnus Olsen wrote: PS/2 was never design be hot pluged. Alot of bios disable PS/2 I/O if no PS/2 device are plugin. that mean u need to reboot you computer. PS/2 wasn't designed to be hot-plugged, but most boards today (all?) support hot-plugging as an unofficial

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 54418: [HALX86] - Do not allow software interrupts to preempt code running with interrupts disabled during KfLowerIrql

2011-11-21 Thread Alex Ionescu
Timo always says everything is correct. Unfortunately this is not the case. _disable and setting IRQL to PASSIVE_LEVEL makes no sense whatsoever. You basically hacked the HAL to support a bug in KDBG. Good job. -- Best regards, Alex Ionescu On 2011-11-19, at 6:50 AM, Cameron Gutman wrote:

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 54418: [HALX86] - Do not allow software interrupts to preempt code running with interrupts disabled during KfLowerIrql

2011-11-21 Thread Cameron Gutman
_disable and setting IRQL to PASSIVE_LEVEL makes no sense whatsoever. You basically hacked the HAL to support a bug in KDBG. Good job. I gathered that what I was supporting was pretty nasty, but either way the behavior that was going on was completely wrong. I'm fairly sure there are

[ros-dev] Announcement: New harddisk geometry next weekend

2011-11-21 Thread Eric Kohl
Hi! I plan to change the standard harddisk geometry from the old 32 sectors and 64 heads geometry to the new 63 sectors and 255 heads geometry next weekend. The old disk geometry was used up to Windows NT4 and the new geometry is used since Windows 2000. So I guess it is time for ReactOS to