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

[Adam Wiggins]

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 
> We're going to have to provide a standard 16-bit BIOS interface if we want to 
> support DOS and Windows users. There's not a lot of chance of making the BIOS 
> go straight into 32-bit mode and stay there.

	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 think we want to write most of it in C, with some critical sections in ASM - 
> after http://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/devload/ I really don't want to think 
> about large projects written solely in assembly.
> 
	:)


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