>>       May you explain here and/or, better, in comments in source, why
>> decreasing SP solves issues (and which issues there are)? >>Only 
>> plausible explanation: >>THIS BIOS damages (sometimes ?) the 
>> flags;      Do you mean "flags, _saved on the stack above given code_"? 
>> And, if so, then why flags are damaged, but return value, which was lies 
>> on place of flags (relative SP) are not damaged, if you comment out "pushf"?
that's all I know. this ugly patch solves the issue.
looks like sometimes someone damages something on the stack, which
goes unnoticed most of the time

> Could just be hitting one word on the stack, i.e. [sp] at INT entry.  That
> would match the behavior on either of the two patches.
right

> However, there's something suspicious about the fact that this is happening
> in INT 15h, and INT 15h is one of the places where EMM386 code where INT
> handling was recently changed
there's no EMM386 involved in that case (it's not loaded)

Tom


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