Unfortunately, the LIM EMS specification seems to be an API spec for
programs and drivers, not a hardware interface standardization. IBM,
Intel, AST, and others apparently all use a totally different driver
with different interfaces. Also, based on the extreme price of EMS cards
on eBay and the very small number of them I am finding, EMS support is
probably a waste of time to even think about. There is no standard
hardware interface, and if the hardware is so hard to find that I can't
get it to test with anyway, there's little point in planning to add
support for it. Unless someone has a valid objection, tonight I will
remove the placeholder code for EMS support and the EMS support option
which does nothing anyway.
Just to be clear about what I'm doing, I'm trying to shrink the ELKS
code base by stripping out vaporware and useless code, particularly
since one direction we are interested in taking is porting to a
different compiler, and every single line of code that's not necessary
when such work begins will only be an additional burden at that time.
Plus, novices who look at ELKS and happen to enable those options will
see options for drivers that simply don't exist or aren't functional,
and then be confused when it doesn't work.
Jody Bruchon
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