[SeaBIOS] [edk2] (PAM stuff) reset doesn't work on OVMF + SeaBIOS CSM

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Feb 18 19:28:44 CET 2013


On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 19:16 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 02/18/13 18:45, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:12:55PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> 
> >> CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 0000f300
> >>     ^    ^        ^        ^
> >>     |    base     limit    flags
> >>     selector
> >>
> > This is because real mode is emulated as vm86 mode on intel cpus without
> > "unrestricted guest" flag.
> 
> Awesome, this supports mys desperate hunch in
> <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-02/msg02689.html>.
> I hope David can confirm in practice!

Yes, my working machines have unrestricted_guest support, and the
non-working machines don't. So when we're emulating it in vm86, the
extended segment base handling is broken.

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dwmw2
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