Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 May 1996 17:21:35 +1000 | From | Lawrence Chim <> | Subject | Re: kerneld and dosemu-0.60.4 |
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Hans Lermen wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Bjorn Ekwall wrote: > > > You wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know how to configure the kerneld to load the dosemu' emumodule > > > automatically? > > > > First of all; are you _sure_ that you _really_ need emumod? > > Bjorn is right, you only need emumodule for a 'full-feature' dosemu. > > If you neither need DPMI nor WIN-3.1 nor IRQ-passing nor background > debugging nor stressed timer access, then you should compile > dosemu _without_ REQUIRES_EMUMODULE. >
But the problem is that, if I comment the REQUIRES_EMUMODULE, dosemu cannot compile.
> Anyway, NEVER let kerneld load/unload the _current_ version of emumodule, it > is not aware of such a condition and may get unloaded while 'dos' is active > ( which may crash you system ). Emumodule is not a 'drivers', it's sort of > (ugly but needed) on-the-fly-kernel-patch to overcome lack of kernel support. > > Better load it at boot-up via ./dosemu/load_modules.sh. > > Hans > <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>
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