this is from Fish-'s NSC Geode GX2:
000000 00004f00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00009000 00000000 00000000 0000fffa
0000 0000 0000 c000 cszopdi 00a8 cd INT $6d
000000 00004f00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00009000 00000000 00000000 0000fff4
0000 0000 0000 c000 cszopdi 00e5 fb STI
000001 00004f00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00009000 00000000 00000000 0000fff4
0000 0000 0000 c000 cszopdI 00e6 fc CLD
... (some gillion zillion more lines here)
i have more traces like this from other cards, but i didnt put a reference to
what
card it was in the filename :-/
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cinap
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On Tue Mar 1 20:07:19 EST 2011, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote:
> the real realmode is shoot and pray. it might just crash the machine
> or do wired things like reenable interrupts or even try to switch
> itself to protected mode.
>
> with realemu, you might get a messed up screen, but plan9 is still
> running. in case the vesa bios did wired stuff that caused plan9 to
> crash before, it might now work with realemu.
have you caught any bioses reenabling interrupts or doing other things
like that?
what's the strategy for detecting vesa bios "doing bad things"?
is the included list of video cards a list of cards that do not work with
the regular realmode but do work with emulated real mode?
- erik
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