From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mohammed Gamal" Subject: Re: [RFC] Patch - Big real mode emulation Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 01:52:28 +0300 Message-ID: <52d4a3890805221552j205cd737h59cf3d6b0fce08da@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080521113410.43ec182f@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Guillaume Thouvenin" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Avi Kivity" , "Anthony Liguori" , "Alexander Graf" , "Marcelo Tosatti" To: "Kamble, Nitin A" Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:21457 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756353AbYEVWwb (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 18:52:31 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so161313nfc.21 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 15:52:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > Good progress so far. FYI, When I was looking at it the hardest part > for the big real mode support was from boot loaders from the open suse > Linux 10.1 & 10.2 install CDs. > In that the boot loader was painting fancy graphics on screen, which > needed above 1MB memory access. So it used the big real mode to do those > memory accesses in the syslinux boot loader. Well, with this patch I got openSUSE 10.2 Live CD working. It crashes at times, but this happens randomly (much like the issue that occured with Ubuntu Live CDs before) so I guess this is not something to do with big real mode.