Hello everyone.
I'm in the procoss of building my own wearable and am tinkering with the
Jumptec DIMM-PC (see http://wearables.stanford.edu and
http://www.jumptec.com), which is a pretty standard i[34]86.
The DIMM-PC has a custom BIOS for setting up various capabilities, one of
which is for setting up support of "Dot-Matrix LCD support", which is
simply plugging a special LCD screen into the LP port. In the (far?)
future I'd like to get this work.
I understand that you cannot in general call BIOS functions from the
kernel once it is in protected mode. Does anyone have any
examples/experience of BIOS calls called either before going into
protected mode? Or might it make more sense to customize LILO to do this?
Any suggestions?
I'm very new to hardware hacking, and while I've played with kernel
sources quite a bit, it's always been higer-level networking and system
call stuff--I'm not to clear on the low level stuff.
Thanks,
--Jeremy
Jeremy Impson
Network Engineer
Advanced Technologies Department
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
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