[coreboot] [PATCH] x86.c and x86emu/YABEL updates

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sun Oct 25 15:11:42 CET 2009


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Option ROM init x86/x86emu update
> 
> - use default display in int 15 5f35
> - move REALMODE_BASE to 0x600, 0x500 can be BDA
> - add regparm for assembler functions
> - use memset instead of own implementation
> - YABEL: copy back the IVT, BDA and VBIOS. Some Xorg drivers require this.

Which drivers? Please try to avoid this type of ambiguousness. (Also
for the ACPI patch.) It's a real headache for someone who doesn't
know which drivers (like me) to figure out if this is the source of
some of my problems, or not.


> - YABEL: use hardware timer instead of emulated timer, because the emulated
>   timer's base is never initialized (leading to division by zero if the 
>   timer is really used)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>

Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>




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