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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Aleksey Gorelov <dared1st@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Generic Disk Driver in Linux
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
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--- Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> The int 13 calls to the bios can only accept addresses within the first 
> 1 MB of memory, and the calls are synchronous, so DMA really doesn't 
> matter as the cpu will be busy waiting anyhow while the IO takes place, 
> which will wreak all kinds of hell on the rest of the running system, 
> including other hardware ISRs.
> 
  Not that easy. Once you start int13 transfer, your vm86 thread may be 
preempted to allow cpu doing something useful, including other ISRs processing.
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