[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Distinguish between reset types

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 20/02/2013 16:18, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>> > I'm beginning to wish I'd just ignored the fact that
>> > we need a properly working "soft" reset to get back from 286 protected
>> > mode to real mode, and wired up the damn PAM reset unconditionally. I'm
>> > not convinced that the protected->real mode transition will work for
>> > anyone anyway.
> I believe currently we must be somewhere "between" soft reset & hard
> reset. I estimate getting closer to a well-emulated hard reset is more
> important than getting closer to a soft one. If you were to extend the
> i440FX reset handler so that it unconditionally resets the PAMs, I'd
> give my Rb. (Take it for what it's worth :))

It would actually make sense.  The right way to do soft reset has
nothing to do with qemu_system_reset_request().

Paolo