Re: [Etherboot-developers] UNDI driver

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >Almost there is the little bit of 16 bit code that makes bios calls
> >and switches to 32bit mode that must be allocated below 1MB.
> 
> And also the floppy sector and setup segment from the kernel image.
> 
> >But with a bzImage that code can be loaded much lower in memory than
> >0x9000.  Perhaps that should be the default except when we are dealing
> >with an kernel that does not support it (zImage or old bzImage).
> 
> There's an idea. Hmm more Perl hacking. Do you remember which setup
> version was the transition?

2.something.  It is in the documentation distributed with the kernel.

> Maybe the person who thought up the x86 architecture is dead now then I
> can libel him all I like.

When I see something better I will consider it.  Rumor is the BIOS
architecture was only supposed to last one generation of the product.

Eric