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Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for xaloader.prg
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On 8 mar 2010, at 00.08, Helmut Karlowski wrote:

> How does your loader run the kernel? Does it exit after launch or does it stay in memory?
> 
> If it exits size doesn't matter.

It stays in memory (pexec mode 200 isn't available until the kernel is installed). It uses the standard Pexec() call, and copies the DTA address from the parent (TOS) to allow the kernel binary to continue loading stuff from the auto folder.

-- PeP