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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:33:15 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        sef@Kithrup.COM, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New vm86 patches
Message-ID:  <199703040903.TAA13019@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970301152357.01799@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Mar 1, 97 03:23:57 pm"

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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying:
> On Feb 02, 1997 at 07:33:22PM -0800, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
> > I have placed the current patches that msmith and I are using (jlemon
> > is a bit ahead of us ;)) on freefall.freebsd.org, in ~ftp/pub/sef.
> 
> Urk.  Yeah, these are older patches.  I just grabbed 2.2-GAMMA and built
> a kernel this morning, and the last set of patches that I sent out (for
> -current) applies cleanly to -GAMMA as well.

Just beating on these now.  They look OK, and the lkm probably makes your
life a lot easier.  

> Note that there some modifications are needed to doscmd as well; these
> diffs are included in the patch set.  They should also apply cleanly to
> doscmd_fbsd-970228.

They do, but the resulting kernel doesn't do the vm86 thing.  I have the
LKM loaded, and a doscmd built with the new kernel headers, but no soap.

Is entry to vm86 mode still via sigreturn as per normal?

> Please try these patches.  I was able to run 'fdisk' from OpenDOS without
> crashing my system; in fact, these are the same patches that I've been
> running for the last few weeks, without any crashes at all.  It would be
> nice if we could get these into 2.2 before it is released, or is this
> too "11th hour" for everybody?

It's way too 11th hour, but I'll be asking Jordan to put whatever the most
current 'stable' doscmd might be on the 2.2 CD.

> Jonathan

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