From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com,
Schilling Richard <RSchilling@affiliatedhealth.org>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:50:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010630145036.D255@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010622135228.3929C-100000@chaos.analogic.com> <E15DYhb-0004Ba-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15DYhb-0004Ba-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0100
Hi!
> > Then how does 1.44 megabytes of data from a floppy disk (that won't
> > fit below 1 megabyte), that is accessed in real-mode, ever get to
> > above 1 megabyte where it can be decompressed?
>
> The limit is about 508K of compressed image with the floppy boot.
Wrong. 0xeffff is limit for floppy boot. Kernel errorneously thinks it
is 0xfffff, and loops if it is 0xf????. We use int15 to copy it. Take a
look, there are ugly hacks around that.
--
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-08 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-22 17:32 Schilling, Richard
2001-06-22 17:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-22 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 18:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-22 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-22 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 14:50 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-22 18:19 ` Brian Gerst
2001-06-22 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 19:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-22 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 17:48 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-22 18:25 Comfort, Dan W
2001-06-22 17:44 Dunlap, Randy
2001-06-22 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 16:20 Alan Cox
2001-06-22 15:50 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-22 16:32 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-22 17:11 ` Brad Pepers
2001-06-30 14:47 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-08 16:59 ` Brad Pepers
2001-06-23 20:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-23 23:58 ` Riley Williams
2001-06-24 1:41 ` D. Stimits
2001-06-25 16:28 ` Timur Tabi
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