Great. Now that HIMEM is getting wider distribution to the eager hundreds or thousands, I've additionally collected problem reports with buggy BIOS support for BIOS method and a failing A20 always on method. It's like a dam busted somewhere upstream.
For all those asking, reverting to the original pre-A20 testing HIMEM is not a good idea, because it has known problems with other environments that were fixed in the initial set of A20 tests and revisions done in January/February 2004. I am considering dropping the the KBC method since KBC-2 seems to replace it without problems on all reported machines. If you still have a machine using KBC method under latest HIMEM64, please let me know. Man. You have got to love this nebulous every other brand of machine works differently A20 control nonsense. EMM386 coding may be much more complex, but at least it was definitive and didn't depend on something which varies widely in basic PC hardware, is so damn touchy, and is fatally incompatible with the other tests. We may need to throw a new test open to the teeming masses for testing as a freedos-user and FreeDOS home page announcement and collect problems for a month or two before next release. Hopefully not, as test control and administration off-list could be cumbersome and time-consuming. For now, if you have any problems with HIMEM64 as-is on a current machine and can do any testing to help track down the problem, please let me know. The more data points on this, the better. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
