Commit 251e2638 introduced the "smsww" instruction to the vgabios. Unfortunately, it appears at least some versions of x86emu crash when executing that instruction (eg, FC13 installer crashes). That instruction wasn't required to work around the problem fixed in 251e2638, so just avoid it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net ---
The fix for the "skifree bug" tickled yet another old OS problem - old versions of x86emu don't like smsww. :-( The smsww wasn't strickly necessary, so this patch just stops using it.
--- vgasrc/vgabios.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/vgasrc/vgabios.c b/vgasrc/vgabios.c index 7c1f0b8..f07e85b 100644 --- a/vgasrc/vgabios.c +++ b/vgasrc/vgabios.c @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ vga_set_mode(int mode, int flags) SET_BDA(video_mode, 0xff); SET_BDA_EXT(vbe_mode, mode | (flags & MF_VBEFLAGS)); SET_BDA_EXT(vgamode_offset, (u32)vmode_g); - if (CONFIG_VGA_ALLOCATE_EXTRA_STACK && !(getcr0_vm86() & CR0_PE)) + if (CONFIG_VGA_ALLOCATE_EXTRA_STACK) // Disable extra stack if it appears a modern OS is in use. // This works around bugs in some versions of Windows (Vista // and possibly later) when the stack is in the e-segment.