Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#287 new task

Research VPIC.SYS

Reported by: eco Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Release 4.00
Component: VPIC.SYS Version: 3.10
Keywords: Cc:

Description

why replace VPIC.SYS?

  • DOS support is critical for eComStation customers (we have discussed this at DWS2008)

todo:

  • step 1: try to compile it

Terms: 7 days (August 2008, the 4-th week)

Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by eco

e-co:

Pasha talks: 20080918

I see troubles:

  • the driver knows about 16 irqs only
  • it queries kernel devhelpers, not ACPI.PSD

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by eco

The idea to rewrite VPIC.SYS appeared during DWS2008 (May 2008)

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by eco

source: http://news.ecomstation.nl/article.php?id=23097&group=ecomstation.support.misc#23097

e-co:

eComStation is the best operating system to run DOS/Win-OS/2 applications. To improve the support of DOS in eComStation it's necessary improve VPIC.SYS driver.

Peter Brown:

I disagree.

DOSBox is a much better DOS for most of my DOS purposes - mainly a few old games *With* a choice of virtual soundcard.

I'm so impressed with it that I have not installed DOS/Win16 support in my current eCS2.0RC5 installation. Shame the eCS Installer mucks up and puts a few DOS lines in the config.sys and also partly populates the unneeded \os2\mdos directory. Nothing that cannot be deleted though :-)

No need of a vpic.sys driver either :-)

Maybe eCS should look at "adopting" DOSBox as an alternative to the mute DOS/Win16 support currently offered.

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by eco

This ticket will automatically close other ticket:

http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/ticket/258

comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by losepete

Here is a silly question: What has the possible development of vpic.sys, apparently related to DOS support, to do with ticket #258 - which is about the fact that the /!NOD switch is required on some systems to enable them to boot successfully when using the /APIC switch?

Absolutely *nothing* seems to be the answer - especially on systems that do not have DOS support installed.

I suggest you revisit #258 rather than close it.

comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by ecsnl

The DOS support is needed for some applications of customers and integrating it in the install environment of eCS is also a problem. Fixing the VPIC.SYS is the best way.

To some degree I have seen Nvidia boxes on which DOS support with /APIC does not work. So i gues thats why Eugene typed it was related.

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by pasha

Where is problem?

comment:8 Changed 15 years ago by Steven Levine

Milestone: Release version 3.15Feedback pending

comment:9 Changed 15 years ago by Steven Levine

Component: ACPI.PSDVPIC.SYS

comment:10 Changed 15 years ago by pasha

Owner: pasha deleted

comment:11 Changed 13 years ago by Steven Levine

Milestone: Feedback pendingeCS 2.x

comment:12 Changed 11 years ago by David Azarewicz

Milestone: eCS 2.xRelease Version 4.0.0
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