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From: Marc S. <el...@bu...> - 2002-09-21 15:55:33
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:38:25AM +1000, Ken Yap wrote: > >I don't think you understand what I was trying to do. I figured it > >was better to make a special real-mode stack for calling interrupts > >than to fuss with the protected-mode stack. This has nothing to do > >with the way that the loaders was called--I read ifdef's just fine. > > This would have been the better solution, and is in fact what Eric has > implemented in 5.1.2+ by rewriting all the BIOS stub routines, which > frees Etherboot to live anywhere. Cool. > Those BIOS stubs with inline mode switching go all the way back to the > roots of Etherboot in BSD Netboot. Evidently it was the easy thing to do > then. But Etherboot has outgrown that straitjacket now, thanks to Eric. Is this new code working? Or, should I stick with a patched mknbi? |
