[coreboot] Convert Assembly JMP to C

[Jordan Crouse]

On 11/09/08 17:49 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> 
> OK,
> My JMP question is about copying a drives mbr to memory 0x7c00 and or
> 0x0600 at 512 byte
> blocks. Which is doable. I haven't decided wetheir to try Ron's suggestion
> and try to execute the mbr (hence the JMP question) OR we could even write
> code to translate the mbr and JMP/execute directly to the active bootable
> partition OR even better we could write code translate the mbr, goto the
> active bootable partition and translate it, and JMP/execute right to the
> boot manager, thus bypassing a whole bunch of real mode interrupts. What do
> you think?

You won't be successful.  Any executable code in any MBR is going to use
real mode software interrupts.  You can't get around that, you shouldn't
try.  We have very intellegent payloads that can boot any operating system
imaginable.  Use that.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.