[coreboot] unexpected exception errors loading vga rom

[Joseph Smith]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:39:08 +0200, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
wrote:
> On 23.04.2009 21:34 Uhr, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> And why would INT 13 be called anyways? It has nothing to do with VGA???
> It's exception 13 (decimal 13)
> 
> int13 is exception 0x13...
> 
> exceptions 0...0xf are not interrupts but hardware exceptions
> 
> 0: division by zero
> ...
> 13: illegal instruction
> ...
> 
> The code makes some assumptions and then jumps into the wild. A
> microcode update will not help, unfortunately.
> 
Ok then, why is it doing it??? There seems to be alot of assembly in VM86
which I am not so good at...
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
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