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Old 05-06-2008
Rainer Weikusat
 
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Default Re: Real mode BIOS call in x86_64 Linux environment

smsabu2002@yahoo.com writes:
> I have an application which gets Video controller information using
> VESA BIOS routines. It makes use of LRMI library for making real mode
> BIOS call in x86_32 bit Linux machine.
>
> Now, I need to port this application for x64 Linux. But, LRMI is
> limited only to x86_32 enviornment. Is there any other equivalent
> libarary for x64 porting ?


The x86_64 'long mode' ('64bit') does not support 8086-emulation
(vm86).
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