but other oses like DOS (FreeDOS) Windows 95 (in safe mode) require bios calls. i also don't understand why a bios would jump to extended mode, if this were to happen and linux tried to jump to extended mode... the A20 line may toggle and linux would crash. -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: January 24, 2000 11:08 Am To: openbios@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de Subject: RE: [OpenBIOS] Questions... On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stawnyczy, Evan wrote:
From what i've seen C functions require a bios to run. Which compiler are you using?
not at all. We're using just enough of the current openbios to get linux running, and that is a pretty big blob of C code, and it does not need the bios at all once you jump to it. Note also that openbios hardly does anything at present. ron - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stawnyczy, Evan wrote:
but other oses like DOS (FreeDOS) Windows 95 (in safe mode) require bios calls. i also don't understand why a bios would jump to extended mode, if this were to happen and linux tried to jump to extended mode... the A20 line may toggle and linux would crash.
yeah, like i say we don't care here about anything that needs the bios. So I'm a limited case. Linux prologue properly sets up a20. ron - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message
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