Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS | Date | 30 Jan 2002 13:32:01 -0800 |
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Followup to: <m1elk7d37d.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > - Code at that entry point to query from the firmware/BIOS the > information the kernel needs. >
How do you query from the 16-bit firmware/BIOS at the 32-bit entrypoint? Or is it that you have a table, fixed by protocol, of what information is available (so we're basically fucked when something needs to change)?
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