Ahhhh! Way are hardware companies so brain dead? Intels are not the only
computers in the world. What do we do? Have the kernel have a built in x86
emulator to setup brain dead hardware. I don't want to do that. What
really needs to done is to ask these companies to release the info to set
a mode without resorting to the BIOS.
> [In reference to an earlier thread about multiple heads and mmap problems]
> The amusing thing is that it may actually be easier to support mutiple
> heads on a non x86 machine: my emulator can actually put the real mode
> memory and video at any address in the virtual address space of a user
> mode process since all segment bases are computed as segment*16+a virtual
> base constant which can be changed between invocation of the emulator to
> keep several VM86 machines running (or simply keep different machine state
> structures with different virtual base addresses).
Where is this code?
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