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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] write option roms in pc-bios/
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:03:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B463DFC.5040505@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261664861-15493-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

On 12/24/2009 08:27 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> The gdt address calculation in linuxboot.bin is broken in two ways: first
>>> it loads %cs into %eax, but that instruction leaves the high bits of %eax
>>> undefined and we did not clear them. Secondly, we completely ignore the
>>> incorrect %eax, and use the undefined %ebx instead.
>>>
>>> With these issues fixed, linuxboot works again.
>>>        
>> Wow, I wonder how it worked for me...
>>      
> Got it.  The option roms are built in pc-bios/optionrom, but QEMU loads
> the ones in pc-bios.  So actually I was always testing Alexander's code
> even though I had done a "make -B" to feel safer. :-(
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini<pbonzini@redhat.com>
>    

This will wreak havoc on the tree since these are built by default and 
they are replacing files in revision control.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

       reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4B337318.6080901@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <1261664861-15493-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
2010-01-07 20:03   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-08  7:31     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] write option roms in pc-bios/ Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-08  7:57       ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-01-08  8:19         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-08  9:12           ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-01-08 12:29       ` Anthony Liguori

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