NAND behind INT13 BIOS interface

[Indrek Kruusa]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 12:34 +0300, Indrek Kruusa wrote:
>> I have board with NAND and BIOS seems to have built-in driver for that. 
>> BIOS provides INT 13 interface for the NAND too.
>>
>> Is there a solution to access such NAND (with the help of INT 13) as a 
>> usual block device from Linux?
>
> There used to be such a hack -- it's quite evil and fragile though. You
> have to switch back into real mode to invoke the BIOS call, and you need
> to preserve enough of the pre-boot environment that it can still work.
> Running it in vm86 mode might also work, if you're lucky.
>
> Seriously though, I wouldn't bother -- just implement a translation
> layer in Linux which is compatible.

Thanks for the advice.
It may be that I switch to LinuxBIOS and then there could be more 
options to cope with that.

Indrek