I wrote a program with assembly 8086 and combile in dos, now I want to compile this program that is 32bit in linux that I wrote with assembly languege
How can I convert int 1ah (bios interruptt) to linux form, In fact; I want to detect pci and other hardwares in linux?
I give some changes that I think nesessary for my code when this code want compile in linux for example I convert int 21h to int 80h
now when I compile this code in linux (fedora8) give me this error:
#ld -s -o myfile myfile.o
myfile.o: In function `found`:
myfile.asm.+0x57d2):relocation truncated to fit: R_386_16 against`.`

please tell me my code has what problem

Oh, boy, you're in for a surprise.

The Linux kernel handles all interrupts, as these are privileged. You can't just convert a DOS program over to Unix/Linux and expect it to work. Your program won't ever see interrupts.

You're going to need to learn about the difference between user-space programs, and possiblly device drivers (depending upon what you are trying to do).

Your program will also need to conform to the standard C runtime, and be linked with the libc runtime loader libraries.

Unix/Linux is an entirely different world.

I don't know what is wrong with your code but you can't call Bios interupts from user space processes in a protected mode OS. You'll have to look into OS or library calls to return the information you want.

edit: Damn - that's twice Mr.C has beat me to it !!

Oops, I'll go get something to eat... brb. :-)

Hi -

Like bgeddy and Mr. C said, you cannot invoke BIOS interrupts directly from a user-mode program. This is equally true for DOS as for Linux (and Solaris, BSD and any other contemporary, protected mode operating system).

"But I can call BIOS interrupts from a DOS prompt on Windows", you might reply. That's because a Windows DOS prompt *emulates* an entire DOS environment (within protected-mode Windows).

You can do the same thing in Linux, if you wish to. Here is one (of many) alternatives:

http://lowfatlinux.com/linux-dosemu-emulator.html

'Hope that helps .. PSM