[coreboot] About Paging, Realmode and what is going on

[Peter Stuge]

Philipp Stanner wrote:
> Why would I want to address memory in RM with 32 Bits? I don't see
> any difference to using PM without Paging enabled.

In a bootloader (after coreboot) you often want to call BIOS
interrupt services which assume real mode, because that was the
only mode, when the interrupt services were created.

For coreboot itself, I think there is little if any advantage to big real mode.


//Peter