2009/7/29 Javier Martín :
> Robert Millan escribió:
>> First of all, please don't call them far pointers. They're an i8086 legacy
>> cruft, which have nothing to do with far or close really (although we seem to
>> have some code that makes this reference already).
> So... how do we call them? I am
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Robert Millan escribió:
> First of all, please don't call them far pointers. They're an i8086 legacy
> cruft, which have nothing to do with far or close really (although we seem to
> have some code that makes this reference already).
So... how do we c
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:32:28AM +0200, Javier Martín wrote:
> This patch modifies the machine-specific memory.h (currently, just the
> i386-specific file), adding a new type grub_machine_farptr and two
> functions to convert between such far pointers and normal C pointers.
>
> The code performi
This patch modifies the machine-specific memory.h (currently, just the
i386-specific file), adding a new type grub_machine_farptr and two
functions to convert between such far pointers and normal C pointers.
The code performing the mapping between realmode and pmode addresses is
simple, and thus i
