[Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.94 - Tests

[Alain <al...@po...>]

I just tested FDXMS 0.94

- Loading om my PcChips machine:
* it doesn't work after a power up, with a long time off,  or if last 
boot was with himem.exe (VDISK detected message)
* it loads after a full boot, if dosfsck runs. I believe that as it uses 
cwsdpmi which can use it's own memory manager, this is fixing something 
in memory. (if himem.exe is loaded this "healing" does not happen)
* after loading himem.exe (in single stepping config.sys) and resetting 
it loads no more
* once it loads, it loads forever
* it works with emm386 2.03 (run only a few tests, lbacahe + tdisk + 
myprogram)

- My interpretation is that fdxms is testing something that either the 
bios or the kernel should have initialized and have not. Either the test 
in fdxms could be changed to consider garbadge as OK, or the kernel 
should initialize that value in memory.

- The file is 05 may 2005, but it identifies itself as 0.93.