[OpenBIOS] Questions...

[Stawnyczy, Evan]

but other oses like DOS (FreeDOS) Windows 95 (in safe mode) require bios
calls.  i also don't understand why a bios would jump to extended mode, if
this were to happen and linux tried to jump to extended mode... the A20 line
may toggle and linux would crash.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich at lanl.gov]
Sent: January 24, 2000 11:08 Am
To: openbios at elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Subject: RE: [OpenBIOS] Questions...




On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stawnyczy, Evan wrote:

> >From what i've seen C functions require a bios to run.  Which compiler
are
> you using?

not at all. We're using just enough of the current openbios to get linux
running, and that is a pretty big blob of C code, and it does not need the
bios at all once you jump to it. Note also that openbios hardly does
anything at present. 

ron



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