From: Mat Hostetter Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 11:41:41 -0600 To: DJ Delorie Subject: Re: How to load ES in protected mode? Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu >Since real mode pointers can't point to virtual memory anyway (the >memory might be out on disk somewhere), there's really no way to make >it work the way you think it should. I modified turbo_assist() to give me a "low memory" malloc(). I use this buffer to communicate with the BIOS. I've used this technique successfully. Right now I am trying to pass the returned segment/offset pair to the BIOS in ES:BX. >For all the BIOS calls that go32 knows about, you must use the offset >register as a 32-bit offset, and leave the segment registers alone. >For all BIOS functions that go32 does not understand, you can't call them anyway. I modified exception_handler() to pass int 0x13 on to generic_handler. That seems to work. I guess I'll just add another case to turbo_assist() that grabs ES out of the high two bytes of EBX and then does the int 0x13 that I want. I was hoping there was a way to bypass this step, though... -Mat