Re: i386 boot & mm gurus' advice needed (int 0x15/0xE820 support)

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:15:30 +0100


Hello,

> Now I just got to find a kilobyte somewhere in lowmem which wouldn't break
> bzImage or simple zImage (how about end_low_memory - 1k ?), query
> in15/E820, and after do_move in setup.S, copy that buffer down to
> (PARAM + 0x400). Right ?

Yes. One of such areas starts with the modelist label (see its
usage in video.S).

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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