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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: s3_late_bios
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:56:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100087772.6014.5.camel@tyrosine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041110072003.GA13561-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org>

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 11:56 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 [this message]
2004-11-10 14:11                         ` s3_late_bios ole.rohne-vJEk5272eHo
2004-11-10 16:25                         ` s3_late_bios Nate Lawson
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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