On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 00:02:55 +0000, Julian Pidancet wrote: >> Some instructions are not emulated correctly by x86emu when they >> are prefixed by the 0x66 opcode. >> I've identified problems in the emulation of these intructions: ret, >> enter, leave, iret and some forms of call. >> >> Most of the time, the problem is that these instructions should push or >> pop 32-bit values to/from the stack, instead of 16bit, when they are >> prefixed by the 0x66 special opcode. >> >> The SeaBIOS project aims to produce a complete legacy BIOS >> implementation as well as a VGA option ROM, entirely written in C and >> using the GCC compiler. >> >> In 16bit code produced by the GCC compiler, the 0x66 prefix is used >> almost everywhere. This patch is necessary to allow the SeaBIOS VGA >> option ROM to function with Xorg when using the vesa driver. >> >> v2: - Decrement BP instead of EBP in accordance with the Intel Manual >> - Assign EIP instead of IP when poping the return address from the >> stack in 32-bit operand size mode in ret_far_IMM, ret_far, and iret >> - When poping EFLAGS from the stack in iret in 32-bit operand size >> mode, apply some mask to preserve Read-only flags. >> >> Signed-off-by: Julian Pidancet <[email protected]> > > Looks good to me: > > Reviewed-by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> > > thanks, > guillem
Anyone interested in this ? Is there a maintainer for x86emu ? The MAINTAINERS file in xorg-docs doesn't mention anything about it. -- Julian _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
