[OpenBIOS] ASM/C and 16/32 bit questions.

[Dave Cinege]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> madman at zip.com.au said:
> >       This might be a really bad idea but let me know what you think anyway
> > :) How about doing a really low level boot loader of some sort so if
> > your booting linux it goes into 32bit protected mode early where as if
> > you boot dos or win it loads into 16-bit mode with all the int's that
> > are needed?
> 
> I don't think we'd gain much from the 32-bit stuff. It'd mean that we have
> to provide both 16-bit and 32-bit versions of a number of functions, and who'd
> ever use the 32-bit API?

When I think 32-bit in the BIOS, to me that means being able to deal with larger
drives, and booting partitions with a huge sector offset. (corrections please)

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