Device Manage for OS/2

DevCon for OS/2 - Developer Connection

 		Operating systems:
ArcaOS, eComStation, IBM OS/2 Warp
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Additional information

ACPI Interface

ACPI stands for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface". It replaces old IBM APM, Plug'n'Play and OS2APIC.PSD. ACPI is a part of every modern computer. ACPI stores full detailed info about computer in one place, thus simplifies the development of OS and drivers.


ACPI influenced on eComStation very much

ACPI Toolkit

ACPI Toolkit -- library, headers, examples and instructions acpi-toolkit-20080425.zip
acpi-toolkit-20080307.zip

Additional API

ACPI brings additional kernel API for drivers developers:

  • AcpiExecSMPFunction() -- Execute a subprogram on all CPUs simultaneously
  • InitACPICall() -- Find PSD and get pointer to ACPI function
    FindPCIDevice() -- Filling ACPI info about given PCI device

Links

 


 

 

ArcaOS 5.1.1 - DOS works again

DOS virtual machine works again (it was working on Core 2 Duo, and didn't for i5). Install ArcaOS in UEFI mode to use DOS VM.

PNG icons on Desktop

eCo Software: it's a significant achievement that we have created PNG icons engine for OS/2 Desktop. and designed the set of system icons. In other words, we have modernized the external view of OS/2.

Now we can discuss how to attract new users.

// надо на ENG!!
Blonde Guy

Buy OS/2 application: OS/2 Doctor to analyze what is broken in OS/2 (15$)

Warpstock Europe 2017

Warpstock Europe 2017 conference was in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Meeting of OS/2 users and developers. Report (russian text):

 

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