Subject: Re: 1.6ZE does not fully recognize RAM
To: Rob Sanchez <sanchero@gvsu.edu>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/07/2003 17:08:28
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Rob Sanchez wrote:
>
> Yeah, I thought you might want the diagnostics after I sent the message.
> Here it is:
ok so it is the:
+ movl $0xe820, %eax /* Some BIOS check EAX value */
- movw $0xe820, %ax
change that makes the difference.
This would have set all 32bits in the old code - but only as a side
effect of trying to get a 32bit assembler to generate valid 16bit code.
David
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