Re: port-i386/58624: dosboot(8) fails to load kernel through eXtended Memory Specification API (XMS)

[Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:14 AM Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Let us drop XMS support entirely. It has been broken over the
> last quarter century (!!!), and we can safely assume there are
> no user needs... As a bonus, we can unifdef some `XMS` blocks
> outside dosboot directory.
>

Sure, I can remove the code if nobody else is against that.
I would assume the fix would have been few lines of code here and there,
however I agree that removing it gives more practical advantages,
including the cleaner code.

> Here, I note again that dosboot.com successfully works without XMS.
> We can drop himem.sys nor himemx.exe from config.sys, or skip
> config.sys itself. Then, we can use extended memory by ourselves.
>

True!

> Thanks,
> rin

Thank you for your response!

Regards,
Andrius V