Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This approach is okay with me in the sense that it doesn't break anything that wasn't already broken, but as you say, I think we can do better. Below is a patch that merely extracts the basemem

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-15 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I retained the int 12h fallback just to be safe, but I think the bootinfo structure is initialized with a valid basemem for all loaders since at least 1998. (Maybe the fallbacks in the Since 1995, but not in boot2 since 2002/10/01. The

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, it seems to be difficult to determine the region for any BIOSes. I've decided to introduce a new loader tunable to indicate that BIOS has broken int 12H. Attached patch back out 1.385.2.26 changes to support older BIOSes, and add support for

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, it seems to be difficult to determine the region for any BIOSes. I've decided to introduce a new loader tunable to indicate that BIOS has broken int 12H. Attached patch back out 1.385.2.26 changes to support older BIOSes, and add

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This approach is okay with me in the sense that it doesn't break anything that wasn't already broken, but as you say, I think we can do better. Below is a patch that merely extracts the basemem size from the bootinfo structure for the purposes