Re: HFS Patch 16 ported to Parted 1.6.19

[Ryan Underwood]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:19:31PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > > And 2) in how far is it different from the int13 stuff
                                                 ^^^^^ int10
> > > XFree86 uses to run bioses to initialize graphic cards that weren't 
> > > primary
> > > ones at startup time ? 
> > 
> > I don't know.  I suspect the mechanism for running the BIOS code is
> > similar.
> 
> Still, the X code doesn't run in a kernel module as far as i know. I may be
> wrong though.

XFree86 uses vm86() on IA32 cpus and x86emu on other systems to run the
x86 BIOS of the cards.  Only vm86 approach involves the kernel, though
the kernel is not responsible for running the BIOS code itself, only
creating a v86 arena in the process (1MB address space, 16bit regs,
etc) inside which the BIOS code is executed.

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Ryan Underwood, <address@hidden>