"young@ecn.purdue.edu" "Mike Young" wrote:

>	About a year ago, Bertram made available code to make boot blocks
>that talked to the graphics console on a VS2000. They worked fine; the hangup
>was when the kernel enabled memory mapping - this screwed up (as I recall)
>access to the graphics I/O routines in ROM. This necessitated the redirection
>of console I/O to one of the serial ports, in the kernel. (Bertram, if I
>remember incorrectly, feel free to jump in and correct me :-) Neither he nor
>I saw any easy way around this, so we haven't fixed it :-( 

I have a feeling that some (perhaps all) of these console output routines only
work with memory mapping off, I'll try to remember to check the manuals tonight. 


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