[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/6] Convert AHCI driver to run entirely in 32bit mode

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Oct 15 03:39:19 CEST 2013


On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:38:41PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> This series converts the AHCI driver to run entirely in 32bit mode.
> Currently, ahci will only jump into 32bit mode when it needs to access
> the ahci device's PCI config space.  However, if the code has to run
> anything in 32bit mode, it might as well run it all in 32bit mode.
> Doing this also shrinks the total SeaBIOS code size by a few KB.
> 
> In order for this to work, SeaBIOS needs to be able to transition from
> 32bit mode back to 16bit mode in order to use yield().  This requires
> tracking the stack segment when using call32() and restoring it if
> call16() is later called.  It also requires getting off the "extra
> stack" if it is in use.
> 
> This series is a little bit uglier than I hoped, but I'm sending it
> out for further comments.

FYI, I have pushed this series.

-Kevin



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