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From: "Emmanuel Thomé" <Emmanuel.Thome-MZpvjPyXg2s@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Cc: Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Re: s3_late_bios
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:20:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041110072003.GA13561@tate.loria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419127E6.3000603-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>

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.

E.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10  7:20 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 [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <20041110072003.GA13561-xkTd+U360DcAs8EywTwl9A@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-10 11:56                       ` Matthew Garrett
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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