Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:19:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel w/o source? [MOD_DECL in lkm.h] Message-ID: <199701070319.UAA13739@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701060602.QAA29343@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 6, 97 04:32:56 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Do I need to beat the "why we have no vm86 support yet" gong again? If > anyone thinks it'll help, I will 8) > > Yes, we could do a BIOS disk driver. I don't know whether it would > actually require vm86 support (which is for running user processes, > not kernel code), but it would be a shade hairy. Certainly it would > be easiest to run it in a user process. It seems to me that we have working APM calls even without a real VM86(). It occurs to me that saving the first 640K and mapping it into the address space of the putative caller using the same mechanism as APM would likely work... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199701070319.UAA13739>