From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: INT14 waiting for character Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:26:04 +0300 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4019422C.8050106@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Cc: Donald Arseneau Hello. Donald Arseneau wrote: > Unfortunately, while what you say rings true > (I could find the keyboard wait in bios.S) doing anything about it > is vastly non-trivial to me. Please have a look into a rombios.c of the Bochs. That subfunction is 14 lines of a C code only and is absolutely straight-forward (although you'll have to do it in asm). > Isn't this (wait for character on > serial port) required for lots of DOS programs? No idea, but I have none of those for example. The programs I have, are either using fossil, or the direct access. int14 have too many limitations so it is not in a wide usage I think. > Is anyone with > knowledge of the internals interested in implementing it? I hope > so. At least you can try to motivate them. Submit an RFE on SF, attach the example program that uses that functionality (and therefore doesn't work under dosemu) etc. I don't think developers will be motivated to do that without you trying hard to motivate them, but who knows:)