From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:05:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207184704.3063.1.camel@rd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F42817.6040303@gibibit.com>
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> Does GRUB code run in real mode? I was thinking that double-buffering
> the graphics might be important for fancy graphics effects, and wondered
> whether is it difficult to allocate and deal with a megabyte or so block
> of memory? When I last programmed real mode programs in DOS, I know the
> limitations based on segment sizes, etc., but it's been a while.
GRUB runs in protected mode, but it can switch to the real mode
temporarily to call BIOS. In any case, I believe that the menu
implementation should be portable rather than x86 PC specific.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 0:43 Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard Colin D Bennett
2008-04-03 1:05 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-04-03 1:54 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-04-03 2:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-04-03 2:48 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-04-03 16:04 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
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