[SeaBIOS] Running out of space in e/f-segments

Rudolf Marek r.marek at assembler.cz
Sun Aug 22 23:07:11 CEST 2010


> BTW, I tried the cf9,

This bit differs chipset to chipset.

  kbd controller,

The port 92? or the 0xfe command?

>> Btw what about HMA? Maybe you can simply link the post code to HMA.
>> And win 64kb. Bonus is that it is reachable from real mode.
>
> Boot loaders and OSes assume they can use the memory immiediately
> above 1Meg - the BIOS isn't allowed to reserve it.

Yes but I thought we can use it for POST. So maybe reloc is not needed? In 
general case we can put the POST 32bit code right to 1MB...

Thanks
Rudolf

>
> -Kevin



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