From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emmanuel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thom=E9?= Subject: Re: Re: s3_late_bios Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:20:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20041110072003.GA13561@tate.loria.fr> References: <20041108144947.GA31267@tate.loria.fr> <20041108213558.GB4607@elf.ucw.cz> <418FEAD5.1000007@root.org> <20041109125522.GA8015@tate.loria.fr> <419127E6.3000603@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <419127E6.3000603-Y6VGUYTwhu0@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 Cc: Nate Lawson List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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. ------------------------------------------------------- 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