[coreboot] [v3] r1170 - coreboot-v3/util/x86emu

[René Reuter]

Yep now it's working. Thanks for the fix Ron!

Regards,

René

2009/6/9 Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>

>  On 09.06.2009 13:11 Uhr, ron minnich wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Stefan Reinauer<stepan at coresystems.de> <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
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>  I hope we find out why this is a problem, because a combination of cli+sti
> should never cause an interrupt that would not exist without cli+sti. If we
> can't I suggest we commit this in a few days (Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer<stepan at coresystems.de> <stepan at coresystems.de>) since it fixes the problem.
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>  I'm going to commit it. The reason is that we should never do an sti
> unless we are prepared to take a device interrupt, and we are not. I
> think it is an error to do an sti at this point. Also, just doing a
> cli/sti without determining that interrupts were enabled in the first
> place is also a mistake.
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> I agree. Sorry for the premature action of me adding cli/sti to my original
> code submission. I only tested on real hardware (three boards, all with the
> same chipset)... This is a good example how complex interactions between
> components for seemingly trivial code can be.
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