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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!usenet From: rsanders@hrothgar.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hardware Status Date: 16 Aug 1995 02:26:03 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 18 Sender: rsanders@hrothgar.mindspring.com Message-ID: <87rb2me550.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <DDAL0I.D75@seas.ucla.edu> <40orni$6os@park.uvsc.edu> <jcaron-1508951330120001@mon2-09.planete.net> <40rpom$sa1@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrothgar.mindspring.com In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 16 Aug 1995 03:47:34 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.7 On 16 Aug 1995 03:47:34 GMT, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> said: > They examine the equipment word at 40:10h. For all systems after > the XT, bits are decoded as: [...] > This information is filled in via the post routine and would be > retrived in a VM86() environment (which we don't have one of) by > calling INT 11h (post code is returned in AX). I'm all for the ability to do magic tricks with VM86, but that's not the only way. The real-mode bootstrap mechanism could tuck some of these important bits away for the protected-mode kernel to access later. Linux has been doing this forever, and it works just fine. Regards, -- Robert