[openbeos] Re: Calling an Interrupt from within a Driver

  • From: Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:35:41 +0200 (CEST)

Mathew Schofield wrote:

> I want to call an actual interrupt so the BIOS updates it's memory
> size. (This is a hack, though the 'other' intel graphics drivers do
Why do you want to do this? The BIOS isn't used anymore once
BeOS is running.

> I'm guessing now there's no way around Assembly, so i'll just try and
> create my own realint()-like routines this afternoon. I'm sure they
This won't be easy, as BeOS doesn't support virtual 86 mode.

regards
Marcus


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