Lots of BIOSes (a million monkeys bashing on typewriters will write
something that passes some BIOS vendor QA in about 2 seconds) illegally
assume that 0040: points at the BIOS data segment 0040 when making APM32
calls. Sufficient that Windows makea it so and its never going to get
corrected.
> Then, for double extra bonus points somebody should look into whether
> those damn PnP BIOS segments could be simply made to be TLS segments
> during module init. I don't know if that PnP stuff is required later or
> not.
PnPBIOS has to rewrite segments as it goes for data passing. It doesnt
really matter where you stuff them though.
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