[syslinux] HDT 0.5.0 is out

[Jim Cromie]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw at home.nl> wrote:
> Op 21-4-2011 22:12, Erwan Velu schreef:
>>
>> Just a quick note to tell that I did release HDT 0.5.0.
>
> nice, tested the diskette image of 0.5.0 (released with a codename of "Van
> de Keizer" or something like that).
>
> I'm just wondering if this was tested on VmWare platforms though. The
> Workstation 7.1.4 (Windows, x64) software doesn't like your VESA modes from
> the Syslinux menu in a DOS virtual machine.
> Textmode runs happily on a 4MB RAM virtual machine though I'm not sure of
> minimum required processor and chipset features like DMI and PCI.
> For example, an old version of the Java PC emulator (
> http://jpc.sourceforge.net/download_oldsite.html ) makes your program hang
> citing no DMI Tables found.

how long did you wait ?
Pre 5.0, I found it took 4.5 min to fail to identify my CPU,
Erwan added my patch, and improved cpu-detect code
for when CPU is unknown, but there could be a corner case,
and virtual CPUs are near the corners.
My board/bios has no DMI, so hang occurred right after that report.

> Newer version of JPC works, just is very slow at loading.
> Getting your diskette image DOS-compatible is just a matter of renaming
> files and adjusting syslinux.cfg I guess.
> All above discovered by wanting to run your program for determining what
> platform each emulator and/or virtualisation platform offers.
>
> I'll keep quiet about
> http://www.picofactory.com/free/software/pc-xt-emulator/ .. surely neither
> Syslinux nor HDT will appreciate a 8086 platform :)
>
>
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