From:	jhorigan AT mipos2 DOT intel DOT com (John Horigan)
Subject:	Re: Chris Blum's driver
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP mailing list)
Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 93 13:03:26 PDT

> 
> Don't get too excited if you have a PS/2:  it's not supported.  UMB_DVR has to 
> know how your machine's glue chips work, and it doesn't understand PS/2s' yet.
> 
> I think that the chip-specific stuff is strictly part of the shadow-ram 
> support.  Anybody know of a "pure" UMB provider that stays in real mode and 
> doesn't have to know about anything outside the CPU?
> 
> 

I think that that is impossible. To stay in real-address mode the memory
that is physically mapped to the upper memory area must be turned on, 
since virtual memory is disabled, and that requires tickling the chipset. 
I can't see any way around it. Fortunately, Chris Blum is working on new
chipsets, although I'm sure he will work harder if we send him shareware 
money (at least those of us with supported chipsets, catch-22).

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John W. Horigan     GRP Engineer   Architecture Verification  M/S: RN2-27
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