From: Reinhard Karcher <rkarcher@frey.de>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A20 Address line - XMS issue
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:01:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021206150125.GC910@Amis.berlin.frey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DF0BA00.1010605@bksys.co.in>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:23:52PM +0530, S.Gopi wrote
>
> May i know why is it so? If DOSEmu can allow these interrupts then
> programs like himem.sys can use of this and provide the memory manager
> suppor with VCPI support etc. Is there any technical difficulty or
> memory blocking issues with this or it is disabled for some anonymous
> reasons.
>
As VCPI uses priveledged instructions, which are reserved for the kernel,
you can't use VCPI. DPMI is the method to use 32-bit programs.
Reinhard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 14:53 A20 Address line - XMS issue S.Gopi
2002-12-06 15:01 ` Reinhard Karcher [this message]
2002-12-06 21:13 ` Bart Oldeman
2002-12-07 6:05 ` S.Gopi
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2002-12-06 17:30 Stas Sergeev
2002-12-06 22:29 Stas Sergeev
2002-12-06 22:46 ` Bart Oldeman
2002-12-07 0:31 Stas Sergeev
2002-12-07 0:38 ` Bart Oldeman
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