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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:15:13 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        tri@iki.fi, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vm86 in current?
Message-ID:  <199702050045.LAA18046@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970204101725.jlemon@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 4, 97 10:17:25 am"

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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying:
> 
> Well, I've been re-working the patch set a little but, and now have a 
> working set of vm86 patches against -current, which appear to be stable.

Yay!  Are these available somewhere?

> I've eliminated a private 'return' to VM86, so now the normal kernel exit
> point is used.  The next step I want to do is move the emulation of a couple
> instructions (cli/sti) into the kernel, and then add in VME support.

Wunderbar!  The acid test; if you boot DOS in the emulator and start MS-Edit,
can you bring down the dropdown menus?

> When I get the cli/sti stuff working, I'll submit them to someone for
> integration.  Hopefully this week.

Please make sure that the cli/sti stuff honours the 'connect area' code
so that the emulator knows not to deliver device pseudo-interrupts.
(I can talk more about this on request)

> Jonathan

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