[LinuxBIOS] Geode GX1 system IRQ handling

Jonathan Sturges jsturges at speakeasy.net
Tue Aug 15 23:07:24 CEST 2006


Richard Smith wrote:

>> >
>> > Unless its compressed.
>> >
>> You mean, run getpir against the WinCE BIOS image?  Please clarify what
>> you're saying.
>> I still can't use the WinCE BIOS to boot other OSes, so unless I'm
>> misunderstanding you, I don't think that'll work.
>
>
> Exactly.  The $PIR was just a table.  Ron's guessing that if they used
> PIR then its probably just the table hanging out in the ROM in which
> getpir will find it.
>
> you can also hd (or other hexeditor) the image file and look for
> occurances of $PIR.  There may be more than one so you have to go
> further to verify its a PIR table.
>

Oh, sweet!  I hope that is indeed the case.  I'll peek at the ROM image 
shortly.
Can getpir read from a file, such as a binary image of the WinCE BIOS?

thanks again,
Jonathan




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