From: acottrel AT tig DOT com DOT australia (Andrew Cottrell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP-written OS
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:50:28 GMT
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>I'm toying around with writing a barebones OS (initially being able to
>boot and walk around a hard drive only). I'd like to use DJGPP to
>write the command interpreter, but I'm not sure which DOS interrupt
>handlers I need to write. What interrupts does a DPMI provider or the
>DJGPP stub need initially provided to function properly? I mean, I can
>figure out what DOS functions my own code needs, but what about the
>stub and DPMI program?
>
I suggest you have a look at Bill Curie's kernel2zip file (or is it
now kernel3.zip). The URL is http://www.tssc.co.nz/~bcurrie.

Hope this is of some use.

Andrew