Re: Large ROM size (e.g. over 32kb) problems with etherboot

[markus@infoscape.com]

William A. Arbaugh writes:
 > I'm curious if someone can explain to me why a STACKADDR of 0x18000 is
 > invalid. It's below 640kb.  I'm sure it's something obvious that I'm
 > missing.

Without checking with the source code, I would offer this
guess. 0x18000 requires more than 16 bits, so it is no longer possible 
to store this value in the SP register for the stack pointer. You will 
first have to adjust the SS stack segment register (16 bit programming 
sucks :-))



Markus

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