Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:19:36 +0300 | From | "Alon Bar-Lev" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) |
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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?
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