Re: [Freedos-kernel] ke2042: nasm fails to assemble files during build time

2016-11-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 11/29/16 12:50, Travis Siegel wrote: > > Because, apparently the nasm being called isn't in c:\devel\nasm, so > change the path in the nasm.bat file to point to the proper place, and > the problem should be solved. Either solution will work. > But why the batch file in the first place? It

Re: [Freedos-kernel] ke2042: nasm fails to assemble files during build time

2016-11-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 11/24/16 00:59, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Hi, > > Your problem is related to the fact that your "nasm" command doesn't call > nasm.exe directly. Instead, it calls a batch file named nasm.bat which > has been placed in your %PATH% by the FDNPKG installer. This nasm.bat > file is pretty straig

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

2016-10-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/26/16 14:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Memdisk already supports being a disk number other than 0x00 or 0x80, > and the DL register will reflect that. However, I was thinking of > provided a more explicit hint, so that scripts can reply on the > ramdisk being, say, R: >

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

2016-08-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On August 26, 2016 12:26:52 AM PDT, Eric Auer wrote: > >Hi HPA! The boot sector takes a BIOS drive number of the >to-be-booted drive from the MBR, which can take it from >the BIOS. There also are patches to take the MBR item by >pointer from the MBR, but those are not used by default. > >So I gues

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

2016-08-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/13/16 08:33, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi HPA and Joao, > > support for EXT3 in the kernel would indeed be large/complex. > > Only supporting EXT3 READS already would take circa 10 kB of > code, taking the size of the EXT2/3/4 GRUB module as example. > > I like MEMDISK bootable ramdisk style:

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

2015-11-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/14/15 15:00, Till wrote: > > Quoting João Jerónimo : > >> Wouldn't it be better to use a redirector? This can be done with a TSR. >> >> João Jerónimo >> > > > A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive > letter for standard I/O operations. However a kernel d

[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS and redirectors

2015-11-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
I wanted to ask: to what degree does FreeDOS implement the redirector interface? Are there any known incompatibilities? The reason I am asking is that I started a project that I was never able to find time finish (and don't expect to have any more for the forseeable future) to write a 9pfs redire