From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:52:01 -0500 From: William Josephson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] replacing 9load Message-ID: <20051205205201.GA15369@mero.morphisms.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8357672-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:47:14PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > - write vm86 code for the kernel to replace the realmode > and will make the vesa and apm code run on more machines. I might add that doing this shouldn't be too hard. The FreeBSD vm86 is readable and I've ported it to other systems recently. I don't have time to do so again, but the last time I did it, it was a day's worth of work or so with the right manuals. In any case, the FreeBSD implementation is a good place to start if you want to gauge how much work is involved.