[SeaBIOS] Running out of space in e/f-segments

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Sun Aug 22 13:25:44 CEST 2010


  On 08/22/2010 02:15 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>
>> 4 - Have the entry points switch immediately to 32-bit mode and call
>> 32-bit unpaged code in 4G-2M+.  Everything, for example the INT 13
>> code, would run in 32-bit mode from high memory.
>>
> IIRC this was discussed already. Some applications call BIOS from vm16
> mode so switch to 32-bin is impossible.

Ugh.  We could use the old 286 trick and reset the CPU to escape to real 
mode, but this isn't a viable solution (for example, how would we get back?)


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function




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