Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Sep 1998 01:35:19 +0200 (MEST) | From | Hans Lermen <> | Subject | Re: Patch 2.1.120 breaks DOSEMU (fwd) |
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Myrdraal wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 12:16:40AM +0200, Hans Lermen wrote: > Hi, > > I can confirm the below posting from Alberto Vignani: > > > > The ldt changes in i386/kernel/process.c _do_ break DOSEMU's DPMI. ^^^^ read carefully ! --------------------------------------------------^^^^
> > > > (2.1.120 compiled with gcc-2.7.2.1, DOSEMU-binary compiled under 2.0.x). > > I wonder wether Wine also may suffer. > > > > What were these ldt changes supposed to fix? > How did you trigger the breakage? DOSEmu loaded up just fine for me, and > I ran a program that used the EMS or XMS. It worked fine. 2.1.120, egcs 1.1, > Cyrix 586. ^^^^^^^^^^
EMS / XMS have nothing to do with DPMI. In order to make it break you need to start a DPMI-application such as Win31, Games using Dos4GW, DJGPP, e.t.c.
Hans <lermen@fgan.de>
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