[LinuxBIOS] Epia-M compilation fails
Ronald G Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Oct 14 17:30:51 CEST 2005
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * 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
>
I looked at that years ago as well. I would rather we just get Nicks'
problem solved via emulation.
ron
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