RE: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-22T17:43:09Z

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Schilling, Richard wrote:

>
> You've described a relatively complicated procedure well in this document.
> My only suggestion would be to reference the applicable source code files
> throughout the text, so that it's easy to find the associated code.
>

I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, block-
move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1 megabyte real-mode
boundary. I think this is still used.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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