From: "Gerrit Bruchhäuser" <gbruchhaeuser@orga.com>
To: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@rogers.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, landley@trommello.org,
alan@redhat.com, ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: bootsect.S and magic address 0x78
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:39:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB3A112.1060003@orga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d8c01c276a6$67cf9020$370a0a0a@slappy>
Hello Sean,
thank you very much - you realy helped me a lot. I wrote to the top
because this question had been already posted many times. See for
instances: http://www.leto.net/mail/linuxasm/2001/msg00538.html
If this is ok for you then I would like to copy+paste your answer to all
these postings I crossed.
Many thanks and cheers!
Gerrit
Sean Estabrooks schrieb:
>>Hello Linus,
>>
>>
>>Can you tell me where this magic address 0x78 in arch/i386/bootsect.S
>>refers to? I mean, is this somewhere specified?
>>
>>Many thanks and cheers from germany.
>>
>>Gerrit
>>
>>
>
>
>
>>Hello Linus,
>>
>>
>>Can you tell me where this magic address 0x78 in arch/i386/bootsect.S
>>refers to? I mean, is this somewhere specified?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Hope you'll settle for an answer from a simple lkml lurker and not the top
>gun.
>
>The address 0x78 points to the floppy disk drive parameter table
>described here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/fdd_pt.html
>
>A list of all the low memory ROM BIOS vectors and addresses can be
>found here: http://www.cybertrails.com/~fys/rombios.htm
>
>Cheers,
>Sean
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-21 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 10:03 Gerrit Bruchhäuser
2002-10-18 13:00 ` Sean Estabrooks
2002-10-21 6:39 ` Gerrit Bruchhäuser [this message]
2002-10-19 4:44 ` Rob Landley
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