Re: Design Idea: Fixing BIOS device numbering!

[Gordon Matzigkeit]

>>>>> erich  writes:

 e> FWIW, I came up with a technique some time ago to map from BIOS
 e> numbers to device hardware using a set of evil/clever (depending
 e> on your point of view ;) x86 hacks at boot time in GRUB and
 e> reporting this to the OS (those who have read my old GRUB 0.5
 e> technical docs might be familiar with the discription).

Is there an URL for your suggested techniques.  Also, are you familiar
with Okuji's I/O port probing method (the `ioprobe DRIVE' builtin)?
It steps through the BIOS with a debugger, and discovers which I/O
ports are used during an INT 13 for the specified drive.

Perhaps you can use some of its ideas.

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