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From: i249585@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com (Mike Lee x60019/SISD/2-11-EP)
Subject: Re: Micro Channel Query
Message-ID: <1994Mar21.041928.5608@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com>
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
References: <2lqhst$1h9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Mar16.223156.4179@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com> <2mb8d8$6q7@u.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 04:19:28 GMT
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In article <2mb8d8$6q7@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
>In article <1994Mar16.223156.4179@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com> i249585@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com (Mike Lee x60019/SISD/2-11-EP) writes:
>]I don't know about FREEBSD or NetBSD, but I recently got 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit
>]0.2.3 (only kernel related patches applied so far) running on PS/2 80. It even
>]booted on PS/2 70 fine.
>] 
>]In case you are interested, here are some details:
>] 
>]* ABIOS is used for floppy and hard disk access
>>
>   ^^^^^
>   The magic incantation.
>
>Are you going to post the floppy an hard disk driver for this any time soon?
>
>I suspect you had to bump up the valid text range to make calls to ABIOS?
>
>
>
>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@cs.weber.edu
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.

Yes, I will post both drivers soon (plus locore.s, abios.c, ...etc). 

I could not encapsulate interfacing to ABIOS within just the drivers. It had
to be setup during boot and its related information passed on to the kernel.
You will see what I mean when you see the code.  

Mike L.