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Re: gcc48, drmkms issues with i386



On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:50:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >
> >Plausibly prot_to_real could set the real mode $cs value to one
> >appropriate for the return address.
> >The calls are all from assembler and are followed by a bios call
> >and then a call to real_to_prot.
> >
> >If that were done the /boot code itself could probably be linked with a
> >virtual base address of 1MB and run with virtual == physical removing
> >the confusing offset.
> 
> Do you want to take a stab at fixing it? It would take me an order
> of magnitude longer to do the same.

Not for at least a couple of weeks.

        David

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