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Michael Brown 54c5d08df1 [vesafb] Work around data corruption bug in bochs/qemu VBE implementation
The vgabios used by bochs and qemu (and other virtualisation products)
has a bug in its implementation of INT 10,4f00 which causes the high
16 bits of %ebx and %edx to become corrupted.

The vgabios code uses a "pushaw"/"popaw" pair to preserve the low 16
bits of all non-segment registers.  The vgabios code is compiled using
bcc, which generates 8086-compatible code and so never touches the
high 16 bits of the 32-bit registers.  However, the function
vbe_biosfn_return_controller_information() includes the line:

    size_64k = (Bit16u)((Bit32u)cur_info->info.XResolution *
				cur_info->info.XResolution *
				cur_info->info.BitsPerPixel) >> 19;

which generates an implicit call to the "lmulul" function.  This
function is implemented in vbe.c as:

    ; helper function for memory size calculation
    lmulul:
      and eax, #0x0000FFFF
      shl ebx, #16
      or  eax, ebx
      SEG SS
      mul eax, dword ptr [di]
      mov ebx, eax
      shr ebx, #16
      ret

which modifies %eax, %ebx, and %edx (as a result of the "mul"
instruction, which places its result into %edx:%eax).

Work around this problem by marking %ebx and %edx as being clobbered
by the call to INT 10,4f00.  (%eax is already used as an output
register, so does not need to be on the clobber list.)

Reported-by: Oliver Rath <rath@mglug.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2013-12-06 02:54:13 +00:00
contrib [errdb] Strip platform error code for non-platform-generated errors 2013-04-29 15:36:32 +01:00
src [vesafb] Work around data corruption bug in bochs/qemu VBE implementation 2013-12-06 02:54:13 +00:00
COPYING Initial revision 2005-05-17 16:44:57 +00:00
COPYRIGHTS [build] Rename gPXE to iPXE 2010-04-19 23:43:39 +01:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

README

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org