Tried it. . . doesn't seem to help.

Very odd.  Well, I suppose I don't really need it for any of the
devices I'm using.   It would be nice to have a unified kernel though. . .

	-castor

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> 
> castor@geocast.com said:
> > Are there restrictions on when the BIOS can be called which we might
> > be violating, like something is already configured, or its
> > configuration is not registered? 
> 
> Not that I'm aware of - the standard doesn't mention such restrictions.
> Just one idea - can you try the appended patch?
> 
> best regards
> Matthias
> 
> 
> Index: pnpbios.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/pnpbios/pnpbios.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -c -r1.6 pnpbios.c
> *** pnpbios.c	1999/11/30 15:54:55	1.6
> --- pnpbios.c	1999/12/01 14:34:18
> ***************
> *** 284,289 ****
> --- 284,290 ----
>   	int res;
>   	short *help = (short *)(pnpbios_scratchbuf + PNPBIOS_BUFSIZE);
>   
> + help -= 100;
>   	*--help = GSEL(GPNPBIOSDATA_SEL, SEL_KPL);
>   	*--help = flags;
>   	*--help = GSEL(GPNPBIOSSCRATCH_SEL, SEL_KPL);
> 
> 
>