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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:19:36 +0300
From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)
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On 8/28/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Totally pointless since we're in 16-bit mode (as is the "incl %esi")...
> I guess it's "better" in the sense that if we run out of that we'll
> crash due to a segment overrun... maybe (some BIOSes leave us
> unknowningly in big real mode...)

So leave as is? Loading address into esi and reference as si?
Or modify the whole code to use 16 bits?

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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