From: Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: s3_late_bios
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:25:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419240EF.7050709@root.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100087772.6014.5.camel@tyrosine>
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 08:20 +0100, Emmanuel Thomé wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:26:14PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
>>
>>>I mostly work on FreeBSD and since it has clean vm86 support routines,
>>>it doesn't involve any inline assembly to do the lcall there. I assume
>>>Linux has something similar. I think re-entering real mode and
>>>overloading the resume asm code to run just one instruction is a bit of
>>>a hack.
>>
>>I don't think linux has a vm86 api at all.
>
> There's a vm86 api on i386 - see the vm86 manpage. It seems to have been
> introduced in 0.97.
I mean for the kernel and userland:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/vm86.c?rev=1.56&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/vm86bios.s?rev=1.30&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/vm86.h?rev=1.17&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
If you import any of these, please respect the original copyright.
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Nate
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-10 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 14:49 s3_late_bios Emmanuel Thomé
[not found] ` <20041108144947.GA31267-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-08 21:35 ` s3_late_bios Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20041108213558.GB4607-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-08 21:53 ` s3_late_bios Nate Lawson
[not found] ` <418FEAD5.1000007-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-09 12:55 ` Emmanuel Thomé
[not found] ` <20041109125522.GA8015-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-09 20:26 ` Nate Lawson
[not found] ` <419127E6.3000603-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-09 20:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-11-10 7:20 ` Emmanuel Thomé
[not found] ` <20041110072003.GA13561-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-10 11:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-11-10 14:11 ` s3_late_bios ole.rohne-vJEk5272eHo
2004-11-10 16:25 ` Nate Lawson [this message]
2004-11-10 13:16 ` s3_late_bios ole.rohne-vJEk5272eHo
2004-11-08 23:09 ` s3_late_bios Greg
[not found] ` <3195717504110815096a527710-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-09 12:56 ` s3_late_bios Emmanuel Thomé
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