Re: Patch 2.1.120 breaks DOSEMU (fwd)

Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 01:35:19 +0200 (MEST)


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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