From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Re: s3_late_bios Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:56:12 +0000 Message-ID: <1100087772.6014.5.camel@tyrosine> References: <20041108144947.GA31267@tate.loria.fr> <20041108213558.GB4607@elf.ucw.cz> <418FEAD5.1000007@root.org> <20041109125522.GA8015@tate.loria.fr> <419127E6.3000603@root.org> <20041110072003.GA13561@tate.loria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041110072003.GA13561-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 08:20 +0100, Emmanuel Thom=C3=A9 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,=20 > > it doesn't involve any inline assembly to do the lcall there. I assume= =20 > > Linux has something similar. I think re-entering real mode and=20 > > overloading the resume asm code to run just one instruction is a bit of= =20 > > a hack. >=20 > 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. --=20 Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click