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ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Mar 9 09:50:01 CET 2004
On 8 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Not for video support. This is for actually running freedos, freebsd,
> and netbsd and windows etc. All of those unconverted operating
> systems.
ok. I'll leave windows to you :)
> rombios.c or whatever the PCBIOS compatibility layer winds up being must
> be 16bit code, (even if it has 32bit extensions all over the place).
> I'm not certain gcc can be convinced to do a reasonable job of 16bit C
> code.
what's wrong with what we did for vga extensions, a 16-bit hook into
32-bit code? It has worked well for those who wanted native vga.
ron
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