[syslinux] Conditional kernel selection based on CPUID/DMI info
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 29 13:47:47 PST 2008
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
> The second is bioschk.asm, which started out as a way to check for a
> particularly annoying BIOS (Dell Optiplex GX620 version A11, on which
> USB keyboard emulation breaks apparently on entering 32-bit protected
> mode).
> I decided early that it should be configurable, and ended up writing a
> scripting language complete with branching, limited user input, and the
> ability to boot things. I've attached just the source, but there's also
> a test suite.
>
I would be a lot happier putting this in C code (as a COM32 module),
though. I'm trying to reduce the size of the assembly core rather than
have it grow. I'd like to actually get rid of most of it over time.
-hpa
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