Re: Sendkey patch

[phcoder]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> phcoder wrote:
>> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in
>> kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also
>> register "boot" command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken
>> and kernel will become even smaller.
> 
> Remember that realmode code needs to reside below < 1 MiB. That is the
> reason realmode code is embedded in kernel. In there you only see jumps
> to RM and back to PM.
> 
kern/loader.c is always executed in PM. It just chooses which
kernel-specific function to call next. RM helpers are found in
kern/i386/loader.S and kern/i386/pc/startup.S (for chainloader).

Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko