Re: [alliance-iosk] Driver programming and GPL

[Stefano.Costa@italtel.it]

Ramon van Handel wrote:

> >URL?
>
> http://www.zendo.com/vsta/
>
> >BTW for floppy openbios sources are very clear, and I suppose that works :).
>
> URL?

http://www.openbios.org/pub/OpenBios/x86RealMode/v3_msvc_zip
Do you want to write that also? keep something to others :).

> Anyway, they probably assume they're running in ring 0 as well...

Well, want we *must* know is how to do a specific task, in case of floppy how to
read a sector, and generic management chores. Yes, ALL drivers code I know of
presumes to see all HW (i.e. ring 0). I simply look the algorithm to access HW,
and then change the interface to HW itself. So, I now more or less know in which
way manage floppy, I read ABL code and see how to do HW access inside Alliance
and write that.

Stefano


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