[OpenBIOS] asm code

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Feb 21 22:28:37 CET 2000


On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:

> hi sorry this is slightly off topic but i need some asm code to clear
> the screen in the linux kernel -- just after it says uncompressing
> linux. how would i implement this in assembler, that would compile
> under gas. thanks

well, that message is printed from C code. So gas is not needed. 

> 
> ps. will you eventually implement all the standard bios calls so that
> other os's such as dos etc will run under open bios? or will it be
> just a bios for linux?

openbios is for lots of things. Linuxbios is for just linux. Although,
truth to tell, there's no reason it could not support, e.g., freebsd.

ron

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