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RE: 386 PC Rom Image
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:32, Edmund Troche wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edmund Troche
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: Gary Thomas; Erdem Guven
> Cc: eCos Discussion
> Subject: RE: [ECOS] 386 PC Rom Image
>
> Gary,
>
> If someone where to replace the BIOS in a system with RedBoot (assuming
> all the device initialization code is there), will it provide with the
> services that Linux or other OSs need from the BIOS (such as int 0x15,
> int 0x1a, int 0x13, int 0x1 [Edmund Troche] oops, I meant 0x10 in this
> one
> , in the case of Linux)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
At the moment, this support is not present. Since most systems
that run Linux are running on hardware with a BIOS present, we've
not made the effort to supply this (the 0x10 or whatever) support.
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