Eric,
You mean, like this:
bob@susie:~ > echo 'print "0x%x" % 0xfffff000' | python
0xfffff000
?
--Bob
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:40:08PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I was messing around with the boot process, and managed
> to slightly modify mkrom and start32.inc so I can
> successfully use rombase 0xfffff000. Basically
> it simply required using a short jump instead of a long
> one and using %cs instead of %es in loading the gdt.
>
> So now I don't even need to implement the 384KB memory
> hole at 640KB - 1MB.
>
> The only problem I couldn't properly fix was in NLBConfig.
> It chouldn't properly print an interger like 0xfffff000 in hex.
> I had to resort to just copying the string from the rombase
> directive. Can anyone with more python knowledge help here?
>
> Eric
