Hello from Gregg C Levine And how much are we talking about for the M-Systems DOC? Quantity One, as it happens. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----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 > > > > > >
