From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 22:27:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA12406 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12223 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA08290; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:46:29 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601100616.QAA08290@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:46:28 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, root@synthcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601090822.KAA01144@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at Jan 9, 96 10:22:17 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Robert Nordier stands accused of saying: > > Maintaining the BIOS environment is a way that is acceptable to both FBSD > and the BIOS might also get tricky. There are parts of the BIOS you > probably just don't want to get called: like 0x15/0x87 which is only a > helper routine but attempts a return to protected mode with interrupts > disabled. Would other parts of the BIOS attempt to call this? If a BIOS function was called, so far as it could tell, from an address in low memory in real mode? > Robert Nordier -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[