freebios2 mod to reset code.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Wed Jul 23 04:09:01 CEST 2003


* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [030723 02:48]:
> make reset a rel jump to 0xfffffff0 - (sizeof entry16). Then put entry 16
> right before 0xfffffff0. Entry16 code turns on 32-bit mode and then jumps
> to the real start of the linuxbios image -- which can now be anywhere in
> the flash image. I could use this now, as could others.
 
Sounds pretty good!

> Here's where I wish I had a really good emulator for linux -- checking 
> this out would be a whole lot easier.

Have you tried this in bochs? It showed up to be pretty ok for bios
testing (as long as you don't test hw init of course)

Stefan
  
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