Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:35:22 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Flashes and BIOS (was Re: I'm back.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980627163019.253E-100000@broker> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980626212536.25377B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> I have to display my total ignorance here: I'm not sure what happens to
> the interrupt vectors once FreeBSD is booted - are they stored somewhere?
> are they changed at all? I kind of vaguely remember them being located
> somewhere near the 0:0 right after the POST completes (in real mode, just
i've written software - originally for win95 but works for any x86 OS
using the partition model - which allows a user to encrypt and lock a
harddrive. data and booting is disallowed unless a smartcard and the
proper password is inserted.
implemented this by dicking around with int13 hook on bootup to insert a
hook into my routines so i could do on-the-fly encryption and decryption.
i've got the assembler code still with me.
> {dial,net,isp}/{devfs,nodevfs}
>
> but this starts to be messy... Perhaps I'll come up with a feature-level
> configurator instead of defining separate types with their own
it would, andrzej. suggest that i keep 2.2.6 non-devfs as it's not too
stable on this strain anyway. otoh, based on jordan's postings, we're
expecting the 2.2.x tree to be fully merged into the 3.0-RELEASE by end
of this year. would need to consolidate both our versions then. its
currently easy as the differences are not too great.
Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0)
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