[syslinux] Syslinux roadmap, revised
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 23 17:34:43 PDT 2009
On 10/23/2009 10:10 PM, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>
> I need a place to put the real mode code. Also, there seems to be no way to
> call back into a com32 module; e.g. if I want to open & read a file from
> the gfxboot side I can't use com32 code for that but have to make int 22h calls
> directly. Something like libc signal()s, could do the trick, maybe.
>
There is a macro called pm_call on the fsc branch, but the problem is
that an upcall from 16-bit mode will still hold the 16-bit mutex, which
is a problem for the multithreaded 32-bit code on the lwip branch.
-hpa
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