Re: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bios: >4G updates

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> I tried to merge it, but it the new bios won't boot.  I traced this 
>> to ata_reset: it toggles the soft reset bit in the command register 
>> and expects to see the busy bit set, but the ide device model returns 
>> zero status if the selected device has no drive.
>>
>> No idea if the device model or the bios is wrong.
>>
>> If anyone (hi Gleb) wants to take a look, it's in the branch 
>> bios-merge on git.kernel.org.
>>
>> btw, commenting this out leads to boot failure as well, but that may 
>> be related.
>>
>
> Okay, I think I have it -- the bios code was using .org to set certain 
> entry points to well known addresses, and one code section overflowed 
> due to enabling the cache, which is a kvm addition.  Moving that bit 
> out-of-line allows the bios to boot.
>

It works, so I pushed it out.  Alex, can you rebase your bios patches on 
top of current HEAD?

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