On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:45:22AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:13:06PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Does SeaBIOS use big real mode now?
>
> SeaBIOS calls option roms in big real mode. This is required by the
> relevant specs.
>
> See the transition16big function in src/romlayout.S. It briefly jumps
> to an address at 0xffxxx during the transition to real-mode. At a
> quick glance, it looks like it could probably be changed to not use a
> code address >64K.
I put together a SeaBIOS patch so it does not use code addresses >64K
in big real mode - in case anyone wants to test it. Note, this only
reduces the use of code addresses >64K - SeaBIOS will still try to use
data addresses >64K (eg, in option rom PMM code).
-Kevin
diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c
index 354df87..108c332 100644
--- a/src/misc.c
+++ b/src/misc.c
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@ u64 rombios32_gdt[] VAR16VISIBLE __aligned(8) = {
GDT_LIMIT(BUILD_BIOS_SIZE-1) | GDT_CODE | GDT_BASE(BUILD_BIOS_ADDR),
// 16 bit data segment base=0x0 limit=0xffff (SEG32_MODE16_DS)
GDT_LIMIT(0x0ffff) | GDT_DATA,
- // 16 bit code segment base=0 limit=0xffffffff (SEG32_MODE16BIG_CS)
- GDT_LIMIT(0xfffff) | GDT_CODE | GDT_G,
+ // 16 bit code segment base=0xf0000 limit=0xffffffff (SEG32_MODE16BIG_CS)
+ GDT_LIMIT(0xfffff) | GDT_CODE | GDT_G | GDT_BASE(BUILD_BIOS_ADDR),
// 16 bit data segment base=0 limit=0xffffffff (SEG32_MODE16BIG_DS)
GDT_LIMIT(0xfffff) | GDT_DATA | GDT_G,
};
diff --git a/src/romlayout.S b/src/romlayout.S
index 54e5a4d..a469596 100644
--- a/src/romlayout.S
+++ b/src/romlayout.S
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ transition16big:
movw %ax, %fs
movw %ax, %gs
- ljmpl $SEG32_MODE16BIG_CS, $(BUILD_BIOS_ADDR + 1f)
+ ljmpw $SEG32_MODE16BIG_CS, $1f
.code16gcc
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