From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
root@chaos.analogic.com,
RSchilling@affiliatedhealth.org (Schilling Richard),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org')
Subject: Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:09:36 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15DZ7R-0004FL-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106221924.f5MJOcQ493255@saturn.cs.uml.edu> from "Albert D. Cahalan" at Jun 22, 2001 03:24:38 PM
> lilo
> grub
> syslinux
> XFree86 (using virtual-8088 to run a video BIOS for a second card?)
Also for monitor identification
> dosemu?
> loadlin?
loadlin does. Dosemu can. It depends how it is configured
The Red Hat installer uses LRMI to do monitor identification by BIOS calls
too. I've not tried to document these users.
> the boot block that reads ext2 (in 1 kB -- damn what a hack)
The Linux8086 minixfs booter is an even better hack - its in C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 22:10 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
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 [this message]
2001-06-22 17:48 ` Alan Cox
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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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