current-users: Re: Two things: i386 boot code and boot man page

Subject: Re: Two things: i386 boot code and boot man page
To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/1995 10:33:16

Excerpts from netbsd: 14-Sep-95 Re: Two things: i386 boot .. Mike
Long@analog.com (649)

>I've noticed that the kernel's message buffer can survive a warm boot
>on an i386.

Some UNIX variants do a
*(short*)0x472 = 0x1234
to make the BIOS skip the memory check.

What about free locations in CMOS RAM?

best regards
Matthias