> > Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > However... why don't you add basic BIOS INT support as an option? ;-) > > > > ow. I'll let someone else do that. It makes my brain hurt SO MUCH. > > The masses will cheer your name and elevate you from Man to God, if you > do it, though ;-) > > > > when you ran the BIOS code, what did you set up in the way of cs, ds, > > etc.? > > > > It seems you need to have: > > bus,devfn in %ax > > cs should be: ??? > > Code should run in 8086 mode at physical address: ?? > > IIRC on ia32 the code was run in vm86 mode... which promptly started > hurting when nVidia put 32-bit code in their video BIOS. (noone else > does that, AFAIK)
Surely if X does it it can be done in userspace? So it isnt a Linuxbios issue. I dont think adding BIOS INT support is a good idea at all. The whole idea is to get away from all that crap. And as you get to userspace so quickly you wont notice. And you can run in emulation on all platforms. Justin
