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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown
02cf755f3f Removed REAL_EXEC(); there is no longer any code using it. 2006-05-24 14:10:15 +00:00
Michael Brown
83d80d9e79 Remove references to obsoleted REAL_CALL from documentation. 2006-05-24 09:16:48 +00:00
Michael Brown
d48d0fb1bb Add the concept of a "user pointer" (similar to the void __user * in
the kernel), which encapsulates the information needed to refer to an
external buffer.  Under normal operation, this can just be a void *
equivalent, but under -DKEEP_IT_REAL it would be a segoff_t equivalent.

Use this concept to avoid the need for bounce buffers in int13.c,
which reduces memory usage and opens up the possibility of using
multi-sector reads.

Extend the block-device API and the SCSI block device implementation
to support multi-sector reads.

Update iscsi.c to use user buffers.

Move the obsolete portions of realmode.h to old_realmode.h.

MS-DOS now boots an order of magnitude faster over iSCSI (~10 seconds
from power-up to C:> prompt in bochs).
2006-05-19 15:06:51 +00:00
Michael Brown
f7b963da51 (Redoing check-in lost by SourceForge's failure.)
Use .text16.data section with "aw" attributes, to avoid section type
conflicts when placing both code and data into .text16.

Add __from_{text16,data16}.
2006-05-13 11:11:55 +00:00
Michael Brown
f8e087767b Allow access to variables in .text16 as well as .data16. Chained
interrupt vectors, for example, will be easiest to handle if placed in
.text16.
2006-05-06 18:57:31 +00:00
Michael Brown
f4429533a6 Added methods for efficiently declaring and accessing variables in
.data16.  librm will need to supply "char *data16", i.e. the virtual
address of the start of .data16.
2006-05-04 17:00:20 +00:00
Michael Brown
9fcded3d23 Towards a(nother) new real-mode infrastructure, in which we take
advantage of the fact that we have to have a permanently-resident block
in base memory.
2006-05-02 15:41:21 +00:00
Michael Brown
d3dec7c331 Update to cope with changes in registers.h 2005-05-20 11:23:51 +00:00
Michael Brown
e44e5c7247 compiler.h is now always included on the command line. 2005-04-14 11:50:26 +00:00
Michael Brown
0ff80b477d Merged mcb30-realmode-redesign back to HEAD 2005-04-08 15:01:17 +00:00
Michael Brown
3d6123e69a Initial revision 2005-03-08 18:53:11 +00:00