Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:28:24 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) |
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Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 8/28/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> Totally pointless since we're in 16-bit mode (as is the "incl %esi")... >> I guess it's "better" in the sense that if we run out of that we'll >> crash due to a segment overrun... maybe (some BIOSes leave us >> unknowningly in big real mode...) > > So leave as is? Loading address into esi and reference as si? > Or modify the whole code to use 16 bits? >
Probably modifying the whole code to use 16 bits, unless there is a specific reason not to (Matt?)
-hpa
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