From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ribamar Santarosa de Sousa Subject: Re: ring0 access Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:06:57 -0300 Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031010200657.GB2642@ic.unicamp.br> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux assembly list On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:05:28PM +0000, Jason Roberts wrote: > I have a desire: switch cpu context to real mode from pm > I have written really cool music that works through BIOS-- > unfortunately, the only way I can get it to work is through > a bootsector,i.e.hook code before OS boots-- > is there any way at all possible to use interrupts, set up my own > handlers, or do any real direct hardware access through > 32-bit mode,i.e. while in running KDE or Gnome??? > Appreciate any advice...what would really be nice is > a cool set of functions like : enter_ring0() ... back_to_pm() > Thankyou, > Paul > Paul, Have you got any answers to this question?... I am very curious too, but i really believe that is not possible; pm would be few meaningless if that was.... Ribamar.