Re: [LinuxBIOS] Question about protect mode?

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 5/29/07, Fu xiayin  wrote:
> Hello,everyone.
> I'm a student, and now my  task is studying Linuxbios.
>
> I'm not very clear about the difference between the protect mode and the
> real mode.
> So I wonder why should Linuxbios turn into protect mode at the very
> beginning.
>
> And is there any difference between protect mode in  Linuxbios and in linux
> kernel.
> If any, what's the main difference?

Dude you seriously need to get some book on the protected mode architecture.

real mode is 16 bit mode. all x86 cpus start in this mode. protected
mode is 32 bit mode. protected mode is good; real mode is bad.

thats all i can tell you.
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