Ok, that makes sense. Are there any BIOS32 services that I should look
at specifically while working on the keyboard code--or should I wait on
those for now?
Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I think that the first things that we should take care about are BIOS32 Service
> > Directory and PCI BIOS support. They are really needed since some OSes (like
> > Windows) use BIOS32 Service Directory to provide access to PCI BIOS service wich
> > in turn is used to access the configuration space for the PCI devices in the
> > system. Linux has the ability to choose from BIOS32 services access and direct
> > access for the PCI devices. Also some BIOS support should be added at startup in
> > order to allocate resources (memory mapped regions, etc)for all PCI devices and
> > call the INIT function that reside inside PCI\'s expansion ROM.
>
> True enough.
>
> -Kevin
>
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