[LinuxBIOS] Epia-M compilation fails

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Thu Oct 13 19:14:46 CEST 2005


* Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [051013 15:39]:
> I guess we can put the old support back if we really have to, but i'd 
> like to avoid it. The old 'drop to x86 mode' support always worried me a 
> bit.

Using vm86 mode might be a way out of the misery. XFree86/Xorg does this on
x86 machines. I've looked into how they did it, and it looks rather
simple, except they're using a system call to switch to vm86 mode. 

Stefan





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