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- FDXMS286.SYS documentation.
-
- FDXMS286.SYS is FreeDOS' replacement for HIMEM.SYS for 286 CPUs.
- It's released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, see the file
- LICENSE.TXT for the full text.
-
- For more information about FreeDOS, go to the web site,
- <http://www.freedos.org>.
-
-
- FDXMS286.SYS require at least a 286 CPU.
-
- FDXMS286.SYS supports up to 64MB of XMS memory. Note that 286s only
- support 16MB of memory.
-
- FDXMS286.SYS relies on the BIOS for XMS moves.
-
- FDXM286T.SYS is FDXMS286.SYS with TRACE_CODE enabled, which can be
- useful for debugging (mainly FDXMS286).
-
-
- Supported arguments:
-
- NUMHANDLES=<number>
- Sets the number of XMS handles. Default is 32. Minimum
- is two (not much use of XMS without any handles!) and
- maximum is currently 1024. Each handle takes 5 bytes.
-
- PS
- Changes to the particular A20 handling necessary on
- PS/2 machines.
-
- DELAY=<number>
- Number of calls to the delay routine after changing
- the A20 line. If you receive the error message "Unable
- to switch A20 address line", try setting it to a big
- value (say 4000) and see if it helps. Then fine tune
- it as you want as low a value as possible for
- speed. Default is 1. Maximum is 65535 and 0 maps to
- 65536.
-
-
-
- Supported arguments only in FDXM286T.SYS:
-
- TRACE=<number>
- Sets the trace bitmask. A set bit indicates a trace
- printout should be shown for that function. Default is
- 0.
-
- The bit for each function is:
- get_version (0x0) = 0x000001
- request_hma (0x1) = 0x000002
- release_hma (0x2) = 0x000004
- global_enable_a20 (0x3) = 0x000008
- global_disable_a20 (0x4) = 0x000010
- local_enable_a20 (0x5) = 0x000020
- local_disable_a20 (0x6) = 0x000040
- query_a20 (0x7) = 0x000080
- query_free_xms (0x8) = 0x000100
- alloc_xms (0x9) = 0x000200
- free_xms (0xa) = 0x000400
- move_xms (0xb) = 0x000800
- lock_xms (0xc) = 0x001000
- unlock_xms (0xd) = 0x002000
- get_handle_info (0xe) = 0x004000
- realloc_xms (0xf) = 0x008000
- request_umb (0x10) = 0x010000
- release_umb (0x11) = 0x020000
- realloc_umb (0x12) = 0x040000
-
- TRACE
- Equivalent to TRACE=0xffffffff.
-
-
-
- <number> is positive decimal number or, if it starts with '0x', a
- hexadecimal number.
-
-
- Comments can be sent to Martin Strömberg, <ams@ludd.luth.se>. Please
- start the subject line with "FDXMS286".
-
- Bug reports should be filed in bugtrack on the FreeDOS site,
- <http://www.freedos.org>. Remember to include the version number of
- FDXMS286 in your bug report. Thank you for testing.
-