Re: [PATCH] implement pop reg in x86_emulate

H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-08T17:50:13Z

> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 20:52 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
>> > Hi Avi,
>> > I am in the middle of implementing the big real support in the KVM
>> > now. I am trying to boot SuseLinux 10.1 on KVM, which uses extensive big
>> > real mode code in the boot loader.
>>
>> Ye gods, what boot loader is that?
>>
> SuSE has added their own extension to the syslinux bootloade for the
> fancy graphics animation screen at the boot time, the syslinux code is
> written in real mode code, but they needed more than 1MB memory access
> for the graphics memory access, and they are using the big real mode for
> accessing more than 1MB there.

Oh gawd. Wow. You've just told me yet another reason why I will not
EVER merge the gfxboot patch into stock syslinux.