Hi,
I was looking through the linux (2.5.56)
arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S and was
puzzled about a couple of things:
1. Near line 221 we have:
sread: .word 0 # sectors read of
current track
head: .word 0 # current head
track: .word 0 # current track
However, since a diskette can have at most 2 heads,
80 tracks and 36 sectors
per track, why are these not bytes instead of words
especially since space is
at such a tight premium in this code ?
2. Near line 272 we have "movw $7, %bx" but the
documentation I've
been able to find about the "int 0x13" BIOS call
says that for service
code 0xe (write character and advance cursor), it
does not take an
attribute byte input parameter but rather uses the
existing attribute. Is
this movw instruction superfluous ?
Thanks.
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