Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)

Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28T12:19:37Z

On 8/28/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Totally pointless since we're in 16-bit mode (as is the "incl %esi")...
> I guess it's "better" in the sense that if we run out of that we'll
> crash due to a segment overrun... maybe (some BIOSes leave us
> unknowningly in big real mode...)

So leave as is? Loading address into esi and reference as si?
Or modify the whole code to use 16 bits?

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.