Re: Is it possible to address more than 1MB in real-mode
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:38:59 -0700
Dirk Wolfgang Glomp wrote:
Am Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:37:06 -0700 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
Dirk Wolfgang Glomp wrote:You don't know what the BIOS does behind the back of either DOS or anything else. In particular, if the hardware requires access to high memory (as some disk and network controllers do these days), you have to go to PM.The problem is that if any interrupt handler ever goes in the PM, it will destroy unreal mode on return (there is, unfortunately, no sane way to read out the segment limits so they can be restored.) So you're playing a gamble with the underlying platform.I didn´t know any normal DOS-IRQ that goes to PM, so only memmorymanager do
that?
For those controllers, i have to go to PM, or the driver is a PM-driver for
the RM, or the BIOS goes to PM and back before DOS is booting?
Typically, they drop into PM and back when they get an interrupt (software or hardware.)
-hpa
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