Re: Memory on boot via int 0x15

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 06:40:57 EST


On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody really know what BIOS function 0xe801, interrupt
> > 0x15 is supposed to return? I mean, by specification, not conjecture.
> > None of my BIOS books show a spec for this function number.
>
> Ralf Brown's massive (and nearly canonical) collection is at
> http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm
>
> The specific documentation you are looking for is described as "int 15,
> ah=88h, SYSTEM - GET EXTENDED MEMORY SIZE (286+)", and a direct link to
> its info is at http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-1508.htm
>
> Jeff
>

Thanks. But ah != 88h. I got the information from another.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).

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