Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations

[Marcus Sundberg]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Richard B. Johnson") writes:

[about PCI setup code]

> This stuff has to be set up before you
> have any resources necessary to execute the output of a 'C' compiler,
> so, if you are looking for 'C' syntax, you are out of luck.

Sorry, but that's plain rubbish.
Some things in bootcode usually have to be done in assembly, but
PCI setup is definitely *not* among them, unless you have some
really unique hardware. Hell, I've even written bootcode where
the memory-controller is set up from C.

//Marcus
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