Scott Duplichan wrote:
]1) When booting a DOS drive, a disk read error occurs at some point
]after autoexec executes.
The revised patch (attached) overcomes this problem. It turns out in
the latter stage of booting, DOS makes a couple of INT13 read requests
with a buffer that is not word
Scott Duplichan wrote:
]1) When booting a DOS drive, a disk read error occurs at some point
]after autoexec executes.
The revised patch (attached) overcomes this problem. It turns out in
the latter stage of booting, DOS makes a couple of INT13 read requests
with a buffer that is not word
Peter Stuge wrote:
]Still it's not nice to write outside the callers buffer. Another OS
]might call same function and SeaBIOS would end up corrupting some
]variable. Ungood. I guess memmove() is the only choice?
]//Peter
I had a couple of ideas for a more sound solution. Debugging them is
a
Scott Duplichan wrote:
Another possibility is splitting the request. The caller's buffer
could handle the bigger part, and a stack buffer could be used for
the remaining part.
I think this idea is by far the best!
//Peter
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