[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 00/11] Relocate init code to high memory

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Sep 16 05:18:33 CEST 2010


Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> The one-time init code could be called again on a soft-reboot, but
> SeaBIOS now detects this case and attempts a hard-reboot.

Could it just skip relocation on warm boots? Or is there a problem
with knowing where things were relocated to?


> qemu and kvm don't appear to have a reliable way to hard-reboot
> - normal reboots don't reset the 0xc0000-0xfffff memory.

That should probably be fixed.

> kvm doesn't keep a pristine copy of the bios

Ditto.


//Peter



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