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To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
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> >> In our (=at a former 'work') most of the EISA mainboards only survive
> >> calling the EISA INT from things like DOS. The 32 bit equivalent in
> >> the BIOS most of the times simply crashed the Unix. I lost the details
> >> but I think counting on this to work is optimistic
> >> 
> >> BTW we where using this to 'autoconfig' a ATT V.3 based system. You
> >> still had to do a kernel link but it was based on the info in the EISA
> >> config NVRAM.
> >
> >The point is to bypass the BIOS.  The only non-computable information
> >is the size of the per slot CMOS area.  That's what I meant.
> 
> Or use VM86 to do 16-bit calls into the EISA BIOS.

Exactly.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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