On 2 Jun 2001, 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.
are you going to commit this. It sounds good. We'll have to test on a lot
of chipsets, and it should be optional, since we've found some that don't
have the fffff000 turned on when the chipset turns on.
Or did you fix that issue too :-)
> 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?
yikes! what line of code is that?
ron
