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

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The following reply was made to PR port-i386/58624; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>
To: Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/58624: dosboot(8) fails to load kernel through eXtended
 Memory Specification API (XMS)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:40:45 +0300

 On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:14=E2=80=AFAM 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