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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] loading plan 9 directly from linuxbios
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:46:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310290945010.28090-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82b2a050f82c852b82a6a50c133f23bd@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> It's good hygeine but you have to assume something.  Assuming 32 bit mode
> is already way too much, we're in 16 bit mode when entered from the normal
> BIOS.

in plan 9? I know that's the way it is in 9load, but in plan 9 it looks to
me like it assume that 9load enters plan 9 in protected mode. 9load sets
up protected mode as far as i can see.

ron





  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29  6:42 ron minnich
2003-10-29  8:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-29  9:37   ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-29 16:16   ` ron minnich
2003-10-29 16:39     ` David Presotto
2003-10-29 16:46       ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-10-29 16:54         ` ron minnich
2003-10-29 20:58     ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-29 23:17       ` ron minnich
2003-10-29  7:42 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-29 16:12 ` ron minnich

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