Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760105AbXHaQ1T (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753301AbXHaQ1L (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:27:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56917 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752110AbXHaQ1K (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:27:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46D84143.8080505@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:26:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Simoneau CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] save registers around VESA BIOS calls References: <20070831015620.GA6259@ele.uri.edu> <46D7AAF7.1030105@zytor.com> <46D7B817.3060304@zytor.com> <20070831150326.GA6003@ele.uri.edu> <20070831161746.GA5459@ele.uri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070831161746.GA5459@ele.uri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 597 Lines: 20 Will Simoneau wrote: > > Apparently some VESA BIOS implementations clobber our registers when called. > Tell gcc about it. > > This makes my Dell Inspiron 5150 boot correctly instead of hanging. > OK, we probably should use the INT10 macro, then, for these, too, as well as change the other two int 0x10 callsites. So much for optimism... -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/