Real mode switch hooks ??

[Bill Traynor]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:41 AM, K Arun Kumar <ziconium03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>      I was looking at the x86 boot code - I found this -
> "boot_params.hdr.realmode"_swtch. why are these real mode
> switch hooks required ? Is this any boot param passed to
> the kernel cmd line ? Any pointers to read more about this ??

A quick google found this:

http://weichong78.blogspot.ca/2008/09/real-mode-bootparams-and-header.html

>
> Regards,
> Arun
>
>
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