[OpenBIOS] Re: Some Questions and ideas for gnu-bios

Pavel Machek pavel at elf.ucw.cz
Tue Feb 17 10:10:43 CET 1998


Hi!

> > Let me start by saying that I've never really investigated the BIOS
> > before, so I may make some false assumptions below. Please point out the
> > errors of my ways.
> 
> Me too!! I've got a pretty good idea how things work, but do x86 asm.
> I'm also unsure about some of the memory limitations, and what, if anything, does
> the BIOS do once a protected mode OS starts.

Under linux, bios is not used (well, with exceptions of APM).

Other 'systems' switch into v86 mode to call bios functions.

								Pavel

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