On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:32:29 +0300
Roman Kagan wrote:
> On x86-based systems Linux determines the presence and the type of
> floppy drives via a query of a CMOS field. So does SeaBIOS when
> populating the return data for int 0x13 function 0x08.
>
> Windows doesn't; instead, it requests this in
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:07:16PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:32:29PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > On x86-based systems Linux determines the presence and the type of
> > floppy drives via a query of a CMOS field. So does SeaBIOS when
> > populating the return da
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:32:29PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On x86-based systems Linux determines the presence and the type of
> floppy drives via a query of a CMOS field. So does SeaBIOS when
> populating the return data for int 0x13 function 0x08.
>
> Windows doesn't; instead, it requests th
On x86-based systems Linux determines the presence and the type of
floppy drives via a query of a CMOS field. So does SeaBIOS when
populating the return data for int 0x13 function 0x08.
Windows doesn't; instead, it requests this information from BIOS via int
0x13/0x08 or through ACPI objects _FDE
