> > > Linux maps all of the 384K ISA window so your report is confusing.
> > but what happen when the 16bit BIOS make a far call from 0xE000 to
> > 0xF000
> > segment with absolut addresses ?! On my machine linux core dumps :-(
>
> The bios is broken then. The 32bit BIOS entry point is passed a specific
> CS: value and it is up to the bios to set up its segments.
ok, a BIOS error but there is no newer version of this BIOS for my
motherborad and the manufactures would say that it works with windows
(it works really :-) so it have to be a linux error! it could be right
that the BIOS have to handle the calls like 32bit calls but what should
do all the users that have brocken BIOS version ?! I know that linux
have support for such kind of horrible systems why not for brocken
APM-BIOS version ?!
cu Raphael Bossek
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