From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 10:37:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D856637B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:37:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB6IgS001169; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112061842.fB6IgS001169@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching to real mode In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:51:41 PST." <3C0FA21D.86860C48@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:42:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's still there. See the code in /sys/boot, in particular, > the bios code in boot2 and boot 3. You're thinking of the bioscall interface in BTX, I guess, which uses v86 mode, not real mode. As John said, actually, really going back to real mode is hard. It would be easier to just reboot the system, especially since we have probably left hardware in odd states. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message