From e10a9b1f00cd943cde6100234ba315cf05f4c226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anssi Hannula <anssi@mandriva.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 03:04:03 +0000
Subject: Add a comment explaining the code fetching VBE strings from video
 BIOS.

---
 vbe.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vbe.c b/vbe.c
index 5029020..b9461d7 100644
--- a/vbe.c
+++ b/vbe.c
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ static unsigned get_data(char *buf, unsigned buf_size, char *bufferaddr, unsigne
     if(len >= buf_size) len = buf_size - 1;
     memcpy(buf, real_addr, len);
   }
+  /* the pointer may also point to the BIOS instead:
+     0x0c0000: video BIOS
+     0x100000: end of ROM area
+  */
   else if(addr >= 0x0c0000 && addr < 0x100000) {
     len = 0x100000 - addr;
     if(len >= buf_size) len = buf_size - 1;
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