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Use of BIOS calls by various OSes, bootloaders, etc., online references

From	"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm>
Newsgroups	alt.os.development, comp.os.msdos.programmer, comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject	Use of BIOS calls by various OSes, bootloaders, etc., online references
Date	2013-05-20 23:27 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<knepcr$bco$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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The general issue of whether BIOS calls are important or not to
bootloaders and OS development came up recently on
alt.os.development.  Perhaps, it's best for each to make their own
conclusions.  But, you can't do that well without being fully
informed about what uses the BIOS.  So, I can help inform by
providing some references that I've collected over the years.  I'm
adding comp.os.msdos.programmer etc in case there is someone out
there that wants or needs this esoteric info.


"x86 BIOS calls used by grub and Linux" by Colin King, Feb 10 2010
http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2010/02/x86-bios-calls-used-by-grub-and-linux.html

"A Study of BIOS Interrupts as used by Microsoft Windows 2000" by
Adam Sulmicki
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20070721000716/http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/winint/index1.html

"A Study of BIOS Services as used by Microsoft Windows XP" by Adam
Sulmicki
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20070721000843/http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/winint/index2.html

"Legacy-Free Hardware and BIOS Requirements" by Microsoft, Dec 4,
2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20100328131544/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/Lf.mspx

"Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference" by Alan Cox, Jun 22, 2001
 linux.kernel, Usenet MSG-ID E15DTfd-0003gI-00@the-village.bc.nu
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/linux.kernel/jCR0tpxu9oY/GJQToAyycoQJ

"FreeBSD BIOS Coupling on i386" by Bruce M. Simpson, Apr 8, 2006
 mailing.freebsd.current, Usenet MSD-ID
e183jh$drj$1@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mailing.freebsd.current/K1VOemzz080/6TuwxYYtDSQJ

"BIOS types" by Hale Landis, Jan 25, 1995
 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, Usenet MSG-ID
791004479snx@sugs.tware.com
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage/87Wd8Jk8RWs/Bke_kDO_rdsJ

"Reverse-Engineering DOS 1.0 - Part 1: The Boot Sector"
 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=165


Rod Pemberton
"My paranoia becomes reality."

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Use of BIOS calls by various OSes, bootloaders, etc., online references "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-05-20 23:27 -0400
  Re: Use of BIOS calls by various OSes, bootloaders, etc., online references "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2013-05-21 21:16 +0200
  Re: Use of BIOS calls by various OSes, bootloaders, etc., online references Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-05-23 18:38 -0400

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