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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:50:58 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        suttonj@interconnect.com.au, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: doscmd vs ???
Message-ID:  <199702040020.KAA07935@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970203122143.jlemon@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 3, 97 12:21:43 pm"

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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Sean was working on a 2.1.6 system, so I would think that you wouldn't
> > have too much trouble fitting his patches to your kernel.  Just be aware
> > that they _don't_ work properly, and unexpected things can wedge your
> > system tight.
> 
> The initial changes that I made to Sean's patches were fairly trivial; I'm
> not even sure what the main showstopper was.  I suspect it may have had
> something to do with the sigcode trampoline in locore.s; in -current, the 
> end of the trampoline is now aligned on a longword boundary, while it
> wasn't earlier, according to the vm-960919 diffs.

Hmm, that's interesting.

> At the moment, I'm attempting to eliminate the private VM86 return, and
> have everything exit in the normal manner.  I'm most of the way there, 
> and hope to finish up this week.

That's great!

> Jonathan

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