Hello from Gregg C Levine
And how much are we talking about for the M-Systems DOC? Quantity One,
as it happens.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Jackson
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:52 PM
> To: Richard A. Smith; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: VGA roms
> 
> The M-Systems DOC *is* a bios extension, as they
> set it up.  You put it in a socket of an add in card that
> maps it like any other bios extension, say at 0xd0000.
> Then the onboard BIOS (unmodified) jumps to it
> durring boot, but after init.
> 
> If they hook INT 13 and provide a disk, or just take
> over the computer at that point and never return,
> I'm not sure, a quick look at their site should tell you,
> and I'm sure you could implement either if you really
> wanted to.
> 
> SO, I don't see that LinuxBIOS has to expend any
> effort to support that.. it's done already by the vendor
> for DOS or Linux.
> 
> LinuxBIOS erases whole thing and does their own
> thing with it, in place of the BIOS chip itsself.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: VGA roms
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:44:03 -0800, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> >
> > >That's what you get on the DOC if you use M-System's code.
> > >Been done already.
> >
> > I'm not very familiar with the M-Systems setup.  I thouhgt the
> > M-Systems just provided a faked drive letter by hooking the disk
> > interrupt.
> >
> > Do you copy in the original BIOS into the M-systems and then add a
> > jump point via a BIOS extension?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]               501.846.5777 x204
> > Sr. Design Engineer        http://www.bitworks.com
> >
> >
> 
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