[SeaBIOS] varlow/extrastack vs code

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Feb 17 14:12:57 CET 2017



On 15/02/2017 18:35, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Yes it seems to.
> One worry is that if we ever fix the qemu triple-fault so it really
> does what you're describing and only resets the CPU, then I'm not
> sure your int3 is the right choice.
> 
> The other question is whether that protected-mode exit switch
> works in practice on qemu; it's going to come back with a lot of it's
> devices reset.

Right, keyboard reset (and port 92h reset) should be an INIT and not a
full system reset.  But that's also something that should be fixed, not
a quirk to rely on...

Paolo



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