Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-29 Thread Lucas Kiwi
hethx gmail Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Received: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 4:56 PM >> However, I understood that HIMEM did something like establishing a  >> routine that was run whenever you tried

Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-27 Thread japhethx gmail
>> However, I understood that HIMEM did something like establishing a >> routine that was run whenever you tried to use an offset greater than >> 0h together with a "real-mode-made" segment. This routine would >> "trap" the event and handle the switch to protected mode and back, >> keep

Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-27 Thread Christian Masloch
>When you say a program would still need to set up flat real mode, I > suppose you mean that they still need a jump to protected mode and back > to initially setup the segment registers. Yes. > However, I understood that HIMEM did something like establishing a > routine that was run whe

Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-27 Thread Lucas Kiwi
rom: Christian Masloch Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Received: Monday, 26 October, 2009, 3:28 PM >    I'm building a driver (for DOS) that's supposed to have several  > functions hooked at an in

Re: [Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-26 Thread Christian Masloch
>I'm building a driver (for DOS) that's supposed to have several > functions hooked at an interrupt. When applications call these > functions, the driver should load and unload some tables or > activate/deactivate them somehow. Because these tables are big, I don't > want to keep them i

[Freedos-devel] About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-26 Thread Lucas Kiwi
Guys,    I'm building a driver (for DOS) that's supposed to have several functions hooked at an interrupt. When applications call these functions, the driver should load and unload some tables or activate/deactivate them somehow. Because these tables are big, I don't want to keep them in conven