To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Calling real mode far procedures
Message-ID: <19961230.105918.4983.11.chambersb@juno.com>
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From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:54:29 EST


On Sun, 29 Dec 1996 14:25:01 GMT aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
writes:
>On Sat, 28 Dec 1996 21:45:51 GMT, chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D
>Chambers) wrote:
>
>>If you do, it's card specific.  The only one that's standardized is 
>the
>>VGA, and then you can't use svga modes.  For svga, you need specs on 
>each
>>card :(
>
>The interrupt call is a VESA standard.  VESA 1.1 includes a standard
You mean the VESA VLB, right?  You wouldn't want to call the routine
directly from PM (as it would require a switch to RM, but so would the
int), but I believe VBE 2.0 supplies a PM pointer to the routine.