On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:10:32AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On 8 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > rombios.c or whatever the PCBIOS compatibility layer winds up being must > > be 16bit code, (even if it has 32bit extensions all over the place). > > I'm not certain gcc can be convinced to do a reasonable job of 16bit C > > code. > > what's wrong with what we did for vga extensions, a 16-bit hook into > 32-bit code? It has worked well for those who wanted native vga.
Some OSs call 16-bit BIOS services in VM86 mode. In that case you can't switch to 32-bit mode by yourself. Eric, how about modifying GCC to generate true 16-bit code? -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
