Re: DOS2linux

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 10:30:48 EST


Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> I also found this URL: http://uw7doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man/man?eisa+D4
>
> It comes from UnixWare 7 documentation and there they have the kind of
> translation that I want to do (that is: translate INT 15h call "Read
> Function" (AH=D8h, AL=01h)) to linux. As i understood there isn't
> such thing available for linux? Meaning I'll have to try and
> implement that stuff myself? But then the problem remains: how do i
> get to the data that is in the 320 byte buffer returned from an INT
> 15h call "Read Function" (AH=D8h, AL=01h)

Basically, nobody ever implemented an EISA bus layer because it is rare
to see EISA hardware anymore. The few EISA aware drivers in Linux
handle configuration themselves. I had thought about doing it at one
time for the sake of completeness, but I don't have access to any EISA
hardware to test.

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