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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Use correct x86 reboot vector
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> Now if someone could tell me how to do a jump to 0xffff0000:0xfff0 in real
> mode I would find that very interesting.

Well, it should be possible to use a trick similar to the BIG REAL or
UNREAL mode. Just load CS with a segment that has a base of
0xffff0000 in protected mode and then jump back to real mode.
Something like this, completely untested of course, should do it:

.align 4
reset_gdt:
.word reset_gdt_end - reset_gdt -1
.long reset_gdt
.word 0

/* 16 bit code segment starting at 0xffff0000 */
.word 0xffff, 0x0000
.byte 0xff, 0x9b, 0x00, 0xff
#endif

reset_gdt_end:

lgdt %cs:reset_gdt
ljmp $ROM_CODE_SEG, 0xfff0

/Christer

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