Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:15:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Message-ID: <199510140015.RAA18677@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199510132324.JAA24147@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 09:24:31 am
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> >Speaking of the three-stage boot stuff, I'd like to hear from some/anyone > >that has a set of screen, serial and disk libraries that interact directly > >with the BIOS in the state that it's in when the bootsector is loaded. > > What's wrong with the routines in the boot loaders except they are not a > library (there is already too much duplication)? They cannot be accessed by the kernel (the VM86 problem). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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