Robert Millan wrote:
> I'm wondering how come the i386-qemu port works if none of its
> initialization code takes into account gate A20. Does this
> mean it's supposed to be already disabled in initial CPU state,
> and only enabled by BIOS?
>
> Or maybe the code only works by chance and would break unexpectedly
> in specific situations?
>
>
Without disabling A20 even and odd mibibytes will be squashed together.
Following code can check A20:
*((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x200000) = 0;
*((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x300000) = 1;
if (*((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x200000))
grub_printf ("Expect bugs\n");
else
grub_printf ("You're safe\n");-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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