Re: Calling PnP bios routines like get device node from x86_84 arch

2007-09-11 Thread mkrameshid
Hi Alan, To be specific I want to call the function 0x60 ,0x61 and few more specified in the BBS specification (attached). These functions or alive in 16 bit mode (0xf000 segment) We can call this functions in i386 using the pnpbios driver (bioscalls.c). I must call this functions to change th

Re: Calling PnP bios routines like get device node from x86_84 arch

2007-09-11 Thread mkrameshid
Can I call the BIOS function using ACPI . I didn't work on it. If I asked a silly question please for give me. I am very new to this. -MKR Alan Cox wrote: Actually I want to call the BIOS run time functions as per the PNPBIOSSpecification-v1.0a (attached). We use ACPI for x86_64, which me

Re: Calling PnP bios routines like get device node from x86_84 arch

2007-09-11 Thread mkrameshid
Thanks for the reply. I will try ACPI and let you know the result. -mkr Alan Cox wrote: Actually I want to call the BIOS run time functions as per the PNPBIOSSpecification-v1.0a (attached). We use ACPI for x86_64, which means you need to use the ACPI methods not the PnPBIOS ones. PnPBIOS